Christy pit

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An early design of pit (core of an implosion-type nuclear weapon), used in the detonation over Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
    — The principal insight behind the Christy pit was that a solid, subcritical core of plutonium could be compressed to criticality.

词形变化

Christy pits plural

词源

Named after Canadian-American physicist Robert F. Christy, who worked on the Manhattan Project to produce the first nuclear weapons.
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