Half Life
Nuclear Reactions
Newly Formed Elements
Properties of Reactions
Decay
100
What is the half-life of Argon-37 if the decay constant is 0.0198?
What is 35?
100
Spontaneous nuclear reactions
What is alpha decay, beta decay
100
Cesium-137 undergoes beta decay
What is barium-137
100
Two properties conserved during a nuclear reaction...
What is mass and atomic number
100
Another name for an alpha particle is
What is a helium nucleus
200
What external factors impact half life?
What is nothing
200
Nuclear reaction in which an atom is hit by neutrons and split
What is nuclear fission
200
Francium-208 undergoes alpha decay
What is Astatine-204
200

Which of the following would be attracted toward a positively charged sheet of metal?

 alpha particle

beta particle

gamma ray 

What is beta
200
A beta particle is
What is an electron whose source is an atomic nucleus
300
The amount of nickel remaining when 10g of nickel-56 (half life is 6.1 days) undergoes electron capture for 61 days
What is 0.01g
300
Alpha particles combine to form heavier atoms
What is nuclear fusion
300
Sodium-11 undergoes electron capture
What is neon-10
300

The rate of radioactive decay is increased by

What is nothing?
300
Positron emission is
What is the release of electron anti-matter, or positrons
400
When 4000g of Iodine-111 undergoes positron emission (half life of Iodine-111 is 2.5 seconds), for 30 seconds, this is what is left
What is 0.978g
400
Transformation of an element into a new element
What is nuclear transmutation
400
Phosphorous-30 undergoes positron emission
What is silicon-30
400

The emission of a gamma ray from a nucleus results in

No change except energy.
400
Charge of gamma radiation
What is neutral
500

How many grams of Co-56 were initially present if only a 5.00-gram sample remains after 235 days? Decay rate constant is known to be 8.79 x 10-3 days-1?

What is 39.5g
500

This type of reaction happens at Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant?

What is Fission?
500
Calcium-41 undergoes electron capture
What is potassium-41
500

The U-238 isotope is most likely to emit

What is alpha particles?
500
Relative penetrating power of gamma rays
What is the highest