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Jeopardy Isotopes
100
Atoms of different elements have different numbers of these.
What are protons?
100

This is an atom that has gained or lost electrons.

What is an ion?

100
This is the smallest subatomic particle.
What is an electron?
100

The atomic number refers to the number of these in an atom.

What are protons?

100

Unstable thorium-230 breaks down into the 226 isotope of this Curie-ous element.

What is radium?

200

Nuclear decay in some atoms can cause the emission of this in the form of alpha & beta particles or gamma rays.

What is radiation?

200
Objects with the same charge do this when they come close to each other.
What is repel?
200

With the same mass & magnitude of charge, an antiparticle of an electron is called this word.

What is a positron?

200

Bananas have a tiny amount of radioactivity due to this element, which can emit .01 millirems of radiation.

What is potassium?

200

Isotopes are 2 forms of an element with the same number of protons but different numbers of these particles

What are neutrons?

300

From the Latin for "fall off", it's the process by which radioactive radium emits radiation.

What is decay?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

Objects with different charges do this when they come close to each other.

What is attract?

300
An atom with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
300

The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, important in daily life.

What is gravity?

300

In 1960 the wavelength of light from krypton-86 was used to define this measurement, also 39.37"

What is a meter?

400

Radiation laden radon-222 is a by-product of mining this element that's named for a planet (and Greek god of the sky).

What is uranium?

400
When an atom gains an electron it has this kind of electrical charge.
What is negative?
400

 In 1913 Niels Bohr theorized that these move in fixed orbits around an atom's nucleus.

What are electrons?

400

Using mass spectrometry, neon was the first element shown to exist in more than one of these stable variations.

What is an isotope?

400

As in planetary sequence, neptunium-239 emits a beta particle & becomes isotope 239 of this element.

What is plutonium?

500

First things first--this particle can become the nucleus of a helium atom by capturing 2 electrons

What is an alpha particle?

500
When an atom loses an electron it has this kind of electrical charge.
What is positive?
500

DAILY DOUBLE 

These 2 types of particles in an atom's nucleus are bound together by the "strong force".

What are protons and neutrons?

500

An atom may become more stable by releasing this Greek letter particle, identical to a helium atom nucleus.

What is an alpha particle?

500

The hydrogen isotope called this was discovered in 1932, 2 years before tritium.

What is deuterium?