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I strongly considered stopping reading at "Uranium is the heaviest element on earth"...
by sylvinus 15y ago
I strongly considered stopping reading at "Uranium is the heaviest element on earth"...
- pm90 15y agoIt is the heaviest naturally occurring element (source:http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/f/heaviest-element.htm http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/f/heaviest-elemen...)
- tokenadult 15y agoI strongly considered stopping reading at "Uranium is the heaviest element on earth" Do you prefer "uranium is almost twice as dense as lead" as I do, for that sentence? That transitions well enough to the idea next mentioned by the author, that a small volume of uranium can nonetheless explode with the force of tons of TNT (which would be much bulkier, besides much heavier, to carry to the target). Yes, it also bothers me when writers don't use the word "dense" when the physical concept of density is what they are writing about. Of course, I had to look up a specific gravity table to check my recollection of the specific gravity of uranium, something I don't experience every day. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001826.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001826.html