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When the first nuclear bomb was detonated, some scientistsbelieved that a huge
nuclear chain reaction would occur, blowing the earth to pieces.Calculate the energy
that would be required to disassemble the earth completely intopieces totally
separate from each other.

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Lets assume that to completely disintegrate something we haveto move all of its pieces completely away from each other In ourcase well consider only the gravitationally bound atoms andmolecules that constitute the Earth The atoms within molecules arebound to one another by the electromagnetic force We want to    See Answer
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