Ahhh water. Blocks alpha particles. Disables magnets. Is there anything this wondrous liquid can’t do?
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expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if it looks that hot, fission is pretty active and a lot of particles coming your way
dellish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
be easily compressed
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Amazing work.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Depends on the amount of compression and relative temperature. Near freezing, ice is compressible. Because the increased pressure causes the freezing point to rise, which causes it to melt. And liquid water takes up less space than ice.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
It can dissolve a lot of things too
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It can also decide what can and cannot breathe in it
JATtho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Be in one fraction at once. H2O consist of differerent quantum-mechanical portions: para-water and ortho-water.
And it only gets weirder.
paljastus
No. Don’t google para-hydrogen. You will break your brain.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
If you reverse a magnet it makes water more west
dellish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I do hate it when my magnets develop a West pole.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Are you sure it’s not more north?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
West by counterclockwise up actually
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
this is how 238Pu ceramic pellets for space probe generators look like, no fission required just alpha decay. If it was fission, it wouldn’t need to glow like this entire time because you can just turn it off
gnutrino@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Well, either you can turn it off or you’re about a microsecond away from being vaporized.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t this contaminate the water?
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
my comment is oversimplified and partly joke, but nuclear power plants use mostly uranium fuel pellets, which are inserted in metal fuel rods and these into another metal container called fuel assemblies, before the are inserted into the water pool, so fual and water dont touch each other, and the vapor cycle is a closed system
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It also only would contaminate the things in water and not the water itself.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well it can activate water itself and make F-18, H-3, and N-17 from just H20
girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
From what I remember, the water that is near the fissile material is in its own closed loop tank and has heat exchangers that transfer heat to another water loop that goes to the turbines.
mercano@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In a pressurized water reactor, yes. In boiling water reactor, steam is formed in the reactor vessel and is sent directly to the turbines. While in operation, the turbine area is too radioactive for human presence. Fortunately, the radioactive byproducts carried in the steam are all very short lived, so it only takes a few minutes cool off.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My Shad is where all my generation comes from. /s
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
more like the future generation
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I typically get My Generation from The Who