Nuclear reactors would be so obsolete people would look back on them in their time machines and laugh. ![]() ![]() You could just fuel everything with water (or anything else you wished), turn anything you have into anything you want, and resources would be meaningless. The amount of energy required to split apart a nucleus and completely rearange it like that is such that reality would no longer be a barrier to you. The neutrons allow the nucleus to remain stable despite that. All the protons in a nucleus repel each other. Yes, there is a physical reason for that. I did, however, note that after that the ratio of neutrons to protons starts at 1:1 and gets larger the higher up the periodic table you go. Originalmente postado por Steve macAwesome:I forgot about hydrogen, you're right, I overlooked that. One could argue that in a high-pressure environment capable of fusing up to Subnautium, the electrons and protons could collide and form neutrons, creating 8 neutrons and 8 protons, forming 4 alpha particles (free Helium ions) and leaving 11 free electrons. The only problem with this theory is that beta radiation occurs when a neutron decays into a proton. Sodium: 11 protons, 12 neutrons, 11 electrons.įrom this, you get 16 Hydrogen atoms and 3 electrons, also known as beta particles, resulting in beta radiation. Titanium: 22 protons, 26 neutrons, 22 electrons. ![]() For this reason, let's try two elements already abundant in Subnautica: Titanium (obvious) and Sodium (part of table salt). If we look for an element with 38 neutrons, we run into a different problem: this also doesn't exist: Gallium contains 39, Zinc 35. Furthermore, no atoms exist with fewer neutrons than protons except for hydrogen, thanks Tenzek, so unfortunately, we have to take a different approach. This is Indium, but Indium has an atomic weight of 114.8, meaning that it contains 65-66 neutrons - but we don't have 38 neutrons to spare. What to do with the remainsThe question now becomes: which stable elements can be made from these ingredients? The first idea is to look at the element with 49 protons.
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