General
The sub-field of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes, and transformations in the nuclei of atoms.
What is Nuclear Chemistry?
The release of energy from the decay of the nuclei of certain kinds of atoms and isotopes.
What is radioactivity?
Isolated the first radioactive elements, polonium and radium, from several tons of uranium ore in 1898; Nuclear chemistry origins.
Who is Marie and Pierre Curie?
The first reactor stations started operating 30 years after the start of the roaring 20s.
What is 1950s?
Father of nuclear science because of his contribution to the theory of atomic structure.
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
Nucleus reactions involve a change in an atom's "brain."
What is the nucleus?
A force that acts between the protons and neutrons of atoms.
What is nuclear force?
Father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear fission.
Who is Otto Hahn?
Nuclear energy has accounted for one-fifth of the yearly energy supply in the U.S. since 10 years before 2000.
What is 1990?
First split the atom to confirm Einstein's theory.
Who were John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton?
The process by which two light atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one while releasing massive amounts of energy.
What is Nuclear fusion?
In a nucleus with too many protons or too many neutrons, one of the protons or neutrons is transformed into the other.
What is beta decay?
Another name for nuclear chemistry.
What is radiochemistry?
Nuclear energy releases zero carbon emissions. Which means it doesn't contribute to__
What is air pollution?
The youngest person in history to produce nuclear fusion; at age 14
Who is Taylor Wilson?
Atoms are split apart, which releases energy.
What is nuclear fission?
A nuclear decay process where an unstable nucleus changes to another element by shooting out a particle composed of two protons and two neutrons
What is alpha decay?
An explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.
What was Chernobyl?
100-90 percent of the world's electricity is from nuclear power.
What is 90% ?
Contributed to the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission.
Who is Lise Meitner?
It is composed by protons and neutrons, thus denominated nucleons, with a positive charge equal to the negative charge of the electrons.
What is the atomic structure?
When there are too many protons in the nucleus, and there isn't enough energy to emit a positron.
What is electron capture?
Contaminate of the environment related to nuclear chemistry.
What is radioactive waste?
The state with the most commercial reactors Chicago in it.
What is Illinois?
He proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
Who is Frederick Soddy?