| | Bohr on the Liquid Drop Model of Fission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Due to the extreme importance of this discovery, I should be glad to add a few comments on the mechanism of the fission process from the point of view of the general ideas, developed in recent years, to account for the main features of the nuclear reactions hitherto observed. |
 | | In the case of ordinary reactions, in which the disintegration consists in the scope of a single particle, this conversion means the concentration of a large part of the energy on some particle at the surface of the nucleus, and resembles therefore the evaporation of a molecule from a liquid drop. |
 | | In the case of disintegrations comparable to the division of such a drop into two droplets, it is evidently necessary, however, that the quasi-thermal distribution of energy be largely converted into some special mode of vibration of the compound nucleus involving a considerable deformation of the nuclear surface. |
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