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Basic Concepts
Radiation
Identifying Types of Nuclear Reactions
Balancing Nuclear Equations
Misc
100
Charge of gamma radiation
What is neutral (0)
100
A risk associated with radioactivity
What is gene mutations (cancer) OR stomach problems OR nausea
100
A reaction, as in fission, fusion, or radioactive decay, that alters the energy, composition, or structure of an atomic nucleus.
What is nuclear reaction
100
1/0n + 235/92U → 2 1/0n + _____ + 137/52Te
What is 97/40Zr
100
The time required to convert one half of a reactant to product
What is half life
200
Mass of alpha particle
What is 4
200
The charge of an alpha particle
What is positive
200
The process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity
What is fusion
200
_____ → 4/2He + 208/81Tl
What is 212/83Bi
200
High energy radiation that almost always accompanies the loss of a nuclear particle
What is gamma emission
300
Charge of beta particle
What is -1
300
When the rate of decay is constant over time...
What is radioactive decay
300
The action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts
What is fission
300
226/88Ra → 4/2He + _____
What is 222/86Rn
300
Used to date organic material up to 60,000 years old.
What is carbon-14
400
The charge of one element into another by emission of energy and particles from the nucleus.
What is transmutation
400
The type of radiation that will travel through an electric field on a pathway that remains unaffected by the field?
What is gamma radiation
400
Spontaneous transmutation of a radioisotope into another element.
What is natural decay
400
6/3Li + 1/0n → 0/-1e + 4/2He + _____
What is 3/2He
400
Equation to find the energy change in nuclear reactions
What is E=mc^2
500
The decay of the nucleus by emitting particles and/or energy in order to become more stable
What is radioactivity
500
The particle that cannot be accelerated in a magnetic field
What is a neutron?
500
An artificially induced nuclear reaction caused by the bombardment of a nucleus with subatomic particiles or small nucei.
What is artificial transmutation
500
______ + 1/0n → 142/56Ba +91/36Kr + 3 1/0n
What is 235/92U
500
Minimum amount of fissionable material present for the chain reaction to be sustained.
What is critical mass