This is the 10th of my weekly posts and for this one I am going to be involving a little bit of science into this post. I have found some cool things during my science class that connects to my project in humanities. I also have some exciting news about the podcast that I will be sharing as well, so enjoy.

First off, the news about the podcast. As of Thursday I have added my podcasts onto platforms such as PocketCasts and Spotify. So far only the trailer is uploaded but the first and second episodes should be up soon. I did not think in the beginning that I would ever be posting something I made on sites like those, but with the help of my teachers I was able to accomplish this. I will include the link to the first episode in the next weekly post, so stay tuned.

Now onto the science aspect. During class we were learning about hydrogen and lithium, and during one of the videos ( link to video  HERE ) we watched, we saw what looked like a small factory. In reality it was a hydrogen ( deuterium ) bomb. We learned that when hydrogen has one electron and one proton, then it is a hydrogen atom, however when it has one electron with one proton and neutron it is known as a deuterium. If it was to have two neutrons, one proton and one electron it is known as tritium which is radioactive. When deuterium and tritium are combined at high temperatures they produce helium which is what causes the nuclear reaction.

In the beginning they used liquid deuterium and since they needed quite a bit the bomb ended up looking like a small factory. I thought this was so interesting that something we picture as a warhead dropped from planes could be something that looks like a factory, of course bombs dropped from planes are nowhere near as powerful as a deuterium bomb.

When we were learning about WWII we only saw the typical bombs and never really learned about them or how they started out, of course those bombs didn’t start as factories because they were not as powerful. 

Overall I though it was interesting to see this massive factory that was actually nothing like what it looked. I also thought it was interesting compared to what we have learned about WWII bombing and things like that.

That’s all for now