Part of the atom involved in a nuclear reaction.
What is the nucleus?
A high-energy electron.
What is a beta particle?
The more dangerous form of nuclear reaction.
What is nuclear fission?
The defining property of an element
What is the proton?
X-rays fall under these.
What are gamma rays?
Where fusion occurs.
What is the sun (stars)?
What changes when you change the number of neutrons.
What is the atomic mass?
Level of penetration from greatest to least.
What is gamma, beta, alpha particles?
Used to initiate the fission chain reaction.
What is neutrons?
The state that atoms like to exist in.
What is stable?
What doctors use to block radioactive particles.
What is lead?
Fusion in the sun converts hydrogen into this element.
What is helium?
Why isotopes become unstable.
What is an excess of protons or neutrons?
What is beta-minus decay?
Where nuclear fission takes place.
What is a nuclear reactor/power plant?