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I AM AN EVIL BOY GENUIS MY IQ IS OVER 145 AND I CAN BLOW UP ALMOST ANYTHING!! !

"Am I right in assuming I can get a nuclear explosion on this suit? Because I'm telling you, that stuff does not dry-clean!"

Down boy! Go work for the military or civil engineering. They could use an explosives fanatic like you.

almost anything huh, try to make a huge block of ice explode

all you need is a huge block of ice and some thermite, the thermite has to be lit though for obvious reasons (to start the thermite reaction)

(disclaimer, don't actually try this unless you know what you are doing, it is dangerous, consider what water/ice is made of at an atomic level)

What you are suggesting is that the H20 particles will split up. No they will not, they will just become steam and rise away from the reaction. You need EXTREME heat to turn it into a plasma. To split up H20, you will need to perform either electrolysis or use a dehydration solution.

So no, your plan fails.

A pack of C4, weapons grade Plutonium, and Uranium, maybe some thermite which is released before detonation, Hydrogen sealed in the outer chamber, under high pressure, and THEN you have a GREAT explosion.

Make big bombs for greater effects.

1 The "Little Boy" was the gun barrel method nuclear bomb detonated over Hiroshima. A Uranium- 235 "bullet" is fired at a Uranium target through a "gun barrel" tube, causing cataclysmic destruction. In a game of pool, it is done by a pool cue and on a table. You are very likely to miss the target hole. However, the Uranium shot never misses unless the tube is somehow too big and the firing mechanism is aimed improperly in the first place. Basically, the gun barrel method is pool with explosives which ends after the first shot.

2. Only the Little Boy and several other nuclear weapons were "gun barrel" types, due to the inefficiency and instability of the design. No more "gun barrel" devices exist. All nuclear weapons are "implosion sphere" designs.

3. The assembly methods and way in which it works are unsuitable for such weapons. The weapon's length would have to be very long if Plutonum were to be used. Only Uranium-235 is practical for such a design.

4. That they would destroy the world? (Honestly, I do not know)

5. Helium or Beryllium.

For some reason it is more fun to try to remember than look it up, but I think the answer to (5) is iron. Even our sun produces elements as high as carbon in the "solar phoenix" cycle which makes the picture of exactly what is fusion a bit more complicated.

One of the scary things is that the ultimate nuclear weapon is not a fusion device but a fission-fusion-fission device. As I understand it, once you have a working thermonuclear weapon, it can be surrounded by an arbitrarily large amount of U-238 (yes, U-238) and the device can detonate the entire mass. I think that this can also be done with a neutron bomb, which is a fusion device designed to "fizzle" and emit a lot of radiation with little blast. I think that the 65 megaton device that the Russians detonated a long time ago would have opened up a lava pit had it been detonated on or under the ground instead of two miles up. As it was it incinerated a huge area.

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It would have caused earthquakes, that's for sure. Neutron bombs are used against military targets. They deliver deadly radiation to the soldiers inside armoured vehicles and fry electronics.

The answer to question one of my nuke pop quiz, is that a starting pool game is rather like the initial single-atom stage of a chain reaction, when a neutron (cue ball) hits the atom (arranged pool balls) and splits it apart. This is only a rough analogy, but designed to get you thinking.

Question 5's answer had a clue in my response to the question. Did anyone notice the highlighted letters in feral? The answer, of course, is iron, often considered at the nuclear level to be the most stable element, and absorbs more energy in nuclear fusion than put out. The explosion of the resultant supernova releases so much energy, it allows even heavier elements to be formed.

When I was a kid it was still legal to burn trash where I lived. I would add wood to make the fire hotter to burn down what remained and that would cause the barrel to glow red. I found out that when I sprayed water on it to cool it down the water would cut through the steel in a few seconds. Granted that the steel wasnb't all that thick because it was rusted, still, the steel burned. Water will actually burn steel at red heat and above. The water is cracked, the oxygen is taken by the iron and burns at a high temperature, the hydrogen unites with the oxygen in the air and returns that energy to the cycle, so we have a pretty efficient cutting implement.