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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In December of 1938, almost by accident, German chemist Otto Hahn experimented with uranium and found that its atoms split when put next to radioactive material. When word got out, physicists and chemists across the United States, Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union raced to find a way to make a bomb by splitting the atom.