Fundamental Forces
Every element larger than lead has one of these.
What is half-life?
This is the type of reactor that Prairie Island's Nuclear Generating Plant uses.
What is a pressurized water reactor?
Due to it's short half life, this meta-stable isotope must be constantly produced for use in radiotherapy.
What is Technetium?
These important materials slow down neutrons to cause chain reactions in nuclear reactors.
What is a moderator?
This scientist determined that electrons exist in stable quantitized energy levels, and change energy levels by disappearing and simultaneously reappearing in the energy level above or below the previous one.
Who is Niels Bohr?
This particle is always emitted with Beta decay.
What is a neutrino?
When Strong Nuclear Force is utilized to generate electrical energy, it is through this process.
What is Nuclear Fission?
This isotope, useful to prevent conflagration, has a half life of 432 years.
What is Americium 241?
This measure of a nucleons relative stability can also explain how much energy is released in a nuclear reaction.
What is binding energy per nucleon?
Ernest Rutherford's graduate students who experimentally determined the atom had a dense positive core by bombarding gold with alpha particles.
Who are Hans Gieger and Ernest Marsden?
Alpha particles are released in a nuclear reaction, they are colloquially known as this particle.
What is the nucleus of a Helium atom?
This force mediator is the only gauge boson to with a charge.
What is W boson?
Given this element's lengthy half life, our planet is only down by one half.
What is Uranium 238?
During this multi-step process happening in the Sun right now, the smallest nucleons are built into larger ones.
What is the proton-proton chain?
This Jewish woman had to flee her laboratory in 1938 but still distance learning style discovered and named fission. Excluded from the Nobel Prize, atom 109 was posthumously named for her.
Who is Lise Mietner?
These were discovered in 1968 through deep inelastic scatter.
What are quarks?
The direction of the magnetic field needed to push cathode rays in a CRT TV to the right.
What is up?
Over the course of nine half lives only this much of the original isotope is remaining.
What is 1/512th?
These special values help explain why some elements and isotopes are more stable than others.
What are magic numbers?
Previously Uranium was used to create these brightly colored celebratory dishes.
What is Fiesta ware?
When a particle and its' antiparticle come into contact, this type of event occurs, releasing inordinately high amounts of energy.
What is an annihilation event?