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G0TEZ > TREK 15.11.05 14:43l 52 Lines 1297 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 12252-GB7FCR
Read: DO1EH GUEST DJ9AO
Subj: Is it a joke?
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From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : TREK@WW
For decdes now,the Star Trek series have occasionally mentioned finding
deuterium in deuterium mines.
In some way, this helps to poer the Enterprise, in fact it's essential.
The normal use for Deuterium is when you heat it up very quickly to a very
high temperature when it's atoms fuse together and convert to Helium with
a very big bang,loud noise, great heat,a lot of radiation and usually
destroy an area about 20 miles (about 33km if you must.)
This is normally referred to as a 'thermonuclear device' (thermonucular in
the US) or a hydrogen bomb.
I don't know what it does on the Enterprise, perhaps it's the central
heating.
Only one slight snag. How do you mine Deuterium? It is a gas, often known
as 'Heavy Hydrogen'as it is an isotope of Hydrogen, about twice the weight
of normal Hydrogen but still a gas.
Thanks BTW, to the station who finally explained about the Norsk Heavy
Water plant, and the alternate use for D as a moderator in a nuclear
(fission) reactor. Why they couldn't use Graphite which the Yanks used and
is far more common, I will never know.
O.K. Mr Spock. How do you mine deuterium. Is it a bit like knitting fog?
All the best from - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7FCR
Message timed: 20:40 GMT on 2005-Nov-13
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