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Chapter 22, Problem 42QP
(a)
To determine
The energy that would be released when ordinary-matter and antimatter hydrogen atoms annihilated each other.
(b)
To determine
Compare the amount of energy with the energy released by one-megaton hydrogen bomb.
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