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Isomer Explosives, not Different from Nuclear Ones Nuclear weapons generate high explosive energies by either fusing or splitting certain chemical elements. A new type of nuclear explosive developed by the US Department of Defense, on the other hand, uses nuclear reactions in order to determine gamma-ray emissions carrying energies about one thousand times larger tha... 14 April 2008 05:58 GMT Researchers Discover New Iron Isomer Isomers are very important to scientists mostly because their ground state atomic nuclei can provide with valuable information regarding interactions between the protons and neutrons present inside the nucleus. Some isomers may only live for a few fractions of a second while others, for millions of years at a time, t... 25 March 2008 03:27 GMT