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Nuclear Device
- - an explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei. A fission device or a fusion device.
Nuclear Energy
- noun - the energy released by a nuclear reaction
Nuclear Family
- noun - a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner
Nuclear Fusion
- noun - a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy
Nuclear Rocket
- noun - a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant
Nuclear Weapon
- noun - a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction
Nuclear Winter
- noun - a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish
Nucleon Number
- noun - the sum of the number of neutrons and protons in an atomic nucleus
Nucleoproteins
- noun - any of several substances found in the nuclei of all living cells; consists of a protein bound to a nucleic acid