Internet Exercises

University of Akron's chemistry
(http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/genobc/)

Go again to the University of Akron's chemistry list at http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/genobc/, and click on the course animations list for general, organic, and biochemistry by James Hardy. Download number 46, fission of a uranium atom, and number 51, a nuclear chain reaction.
1. How is fission, a nuclear reaction, different from chemical reactions?
2. Besides the formation of smaller nuclei and energy, what else is produced?
3. How is this other product important in the production of nuclear energy?

General Atomics Fusion Group
(http://FusionEd.gat.com/SlideShowFolder/PlasmaDefined.html)

The General Atomics Fusion Group has an educational homepage providing explanatory texts and images concerning nuclear fusion. Find out more about plasma at http://FusionEd.gat.com/SlideShowFolder/PlasmaDefined.html.
1. Why are extremely high temperatures necessary to carry out nuclear fusion?
2. What happens to molecules or atoms at 100 million degrees Celsius?
3. What is plasma composed of?
4. Plasma is so hot that scientists cannot rely on simple containers. How then is plasma confined?

Nuclear chemistry
(http://vax1.bemidji.msus.edu/~chemistry/nuclear.html)

Nuclear chemistry is also presented at Bemidji State University's chemistry pages. Learn about it at http://vax1.bemidji.msus.edu/~chemistry/nuclear.html, and answer the questions below and on the web page.
1. List the six differences between nuclear reactions and chemical reactions.
2. What are the three kinds of radiation?

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