In reply to Robin's message of Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:50:34 +1000: Hi, PS, if it goes all the way to Pb207, you get about 45 MeV in total (there are a few beta decays thrown in for good measure ;).
>In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:44:38 +0000 (UTC): >Hi Jones, > >AFAIK the only Thorium isotope found in Nature is Th232, which is both an even >numbered element, and an even numbered >isotope, so has no magnetic moment, hence I suspect there are no Larmor table >entries for it. >IOW it doesn't preces in a magnetic field, because all the protons are paired, >as are all the neutrons, so their >magnetic fields all "cancel out" - "technical term" ;^). >U235 OTOH does, and has gyromagnetic (magnetogyric) ratio of -0.4926e7 >radians/Tesla/sec. >BTW, if you can get U235 to fission, you get about 200 MeV / atom. If all you >can trigger is alpha decay, then you get >about 4-5 MeV / atom, for the original nucleus, plus about another 4-5 MeV for >any alpha decays of daughter nuclei that >you can trigger. [snip] If no one clicked on ads companies would stop paying for them. :)
