Atomic energy - Citizendia

Atomic energy is an outdated phrase which can mean a number of things related to energy produced by atoms:

Nuclear energy, the energy resulting of potential difference of the nuclear force

Nuclear reaction, a process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide, to produce different products than the initial products; see also nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Nuclear Energy is released by the splitting (fission or merging together (fusion of the nuclei of Atom (s The nuclear force (or nucleon-nucleon interaction or residual strong force) is the force between two or more Nucleons It is responsible for In Nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is the process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles Nuclear fission is the splitting of the nucleus of an atom into parts (lighter nuclei) often producing Free neutrons and other smaller nuclei which may In Physics and Nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the process by which multiple- like charged atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus Nuclear reactions are used to produce electrical energy by nuclear reactors
Radioactivity, the set of various processes by which unstable atomic nuclei (nuclides) emit subatomic particles
The energy of inter-atomic or chemical bonds, which holds atoms together in compounds. Nuclear power is any Nuclear technology designed to extract usable Energy from atomic nuclei via controlled Nuclear reactions Radioactive decay is the process in which an unstable Atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting ionizing particles and Radiation. A chemical bond is the physical process responsible for the attractive interactions between Atoms and Molecules and which confers stability to diatomic and polyatomic

The term may have originated with H. G. Wells in the phrase, "splitting the atom", devised at a time prior to the discovery of the nucleus. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 &ndash 13 August 1946 He was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later works becoming increasingly political The nucleus of an Atom is the very dense region consisting of Nucleons ( Protons and Neutrons, at the center of an atom The term is a solecism. Brewer's ''Dictionary of Phrase and Fable'' explains solecism as follows Misapplication of words an expression opposed to the laws of syntax so called from the

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