photofission
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Photofission is a process in which a nucleus, after absorbing a gamma ray, undergoes nuclear fission and splits into two or more fragments.
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It sits within the topics Nuclear chemistry, Nuclear fission and Nuclear physics.
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- Subclass of
- nuclear reaction
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- has cause
- gamma ray
- partially coincident with
- photodisintegration
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- Photodisintegration
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Photofission is a process in which a nucleus, after absorbing a gamma ray, undergoes nuclear fission and splits into two or more fragments.
The reaction was discovered in 1940 by a small team of engineers and scientists operating the Westinghouse Atom Smasher at the company's Research Laboratories in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania. They used a 5 MeV proton beam to bombard fluorine and generate high-energy photons, which then irradiated samples of uranium and thorium.
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