uranium enrichment - 2024 Chicago Open

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Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. Paul Dirac created a method for this process that tangentially injects a mixture of hydrogen and another reactant at the speed of sound into a vortex tube. Lasers with wavelengths around 16 micrometers are used to excite molecules for this process and facilitate the dissociation of a fluoride ion in SILEX procedures. SWUs are units that quantify the (-5[1])effectiveness (-5[1])of this process. Ernest Lawrence invented the (*) calutron at the Y-12 plant to perform an electromagnetic (10[1])form of this process. (10[3]-5[1])A compound commonly called “hex” is forced through (10[1])a semi-permeable membrane in one technique for this process. “Zippe-type” devices used for this process have rendered gaseous diffusion obsolete. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this process (10[1])that may use gas centrifugation to increase the relative amount of an element’s 235 isotope in natural (-5[1])samples. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: uranium enrichment [accept uranium isotope separation or molecular laser isotope separation of uranium or atomic vapor laser isotope separation of uranium; accept separation of uranium isotopes by laser excitation; accept U in place of “uranium”; prompt on enrichment or isotope separation by asking “of what element?”; prompt on AVLIS or MLIS; prompt on gaseous diffusion until read; prompt on gas centrifugation until read; reject “uranium purification”]

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2024 Chicago Open	07/28/2024	Y	12	83%	0%	33%	104.20

Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Kai Smith	Punished "Venom" BHSU	var merchants	63	-5
Kevin Wang	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	We Need New Names	64	-5
Natan Holtzman	Lisan al-Quib	Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret	80	10
Rasheeq Azad	Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes	NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)	84	10
Taylor Harvey	sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone	The Dyatlov Passement incident	84	10
Vincent Du	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	The Empire Bikes Back	84	-5
Vivek Sasse	There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see	BHSU B	84	10
Eric Mukherjee	LMM's LLM MLM	when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything	92	10
Rohan Kher	var merchants	Punished "Venom" BHSU	112	10
Charles Hang	Les Missourables	SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE	115	10
Richard Niu	AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH	First Cause, First Cause, make me young!	118	10
Rahul Keyal	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	135	-5
Swapnil Garg	it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown	NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)	136	10
Walter Zhao	Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A	Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago	137	0
Gareth Thorlakson	The Empire Bikes Back	A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence	137	10
Chris Ray	We Need New Names	genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet	137	0