| Types of Radiation | Types of Radiation part 2 | Vocab | Vocab part 2 | Nuclear Reaction Equations |
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alpha particle
What has the mass #4, and a charge of 2?
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neutron
What has the mass #1 and a charge of 0?
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radioactive
what spontaneously emits small particles of energy
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quarks
What is elementary particle or fundamental particle (not composed of anything else) of matter
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14
N 7
14 0
C ---> ____ + e 6 +1 |
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beta particle
What has the mass of 0 and a charge of -1?
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gamma
Which type of radiation is the most penetrative?
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radioisotope
What is an isotope of an element that emits radiation?
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beta particles
What is beta ray or beta radiation
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14
C 6
14 0
N ---> ____ + e 7 +1 |
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positron
What has the mass of 0 and a charge of +1?
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alpha
Which type of radiation has the greatest mass?
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alpha particle
What is identical to helium nucleus, which has 2 protons and 2 neutrons
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disintegration
What is radioactive decay, unstable nucleus that loses energy by radiation
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30
P 15
27 4 1
Al + He ---> ____ + n 13 2 0 |
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gamma ray
What has the mass of 0 and charge of 0?
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beta particles
What is emitted when a proton becomes a neutron?
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gamma rays
What is high energy radiation, released when an unstable nucleus undergoes a rearrangement of its particles to ogive a more stable, lower energy nucleus.
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Geiger counter
What is one of the most common instruments for detecting beta and gamma rays
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140
Cs 55
235 1 93 1
U + n ---> ____ + Rb + 3 n 92 0 37 0 |
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proton
What has the mass # of 1 and a charge of +1?
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beta
What is the antiparticle of a positron?
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positron
What is similar to a beta particle, has a positive charge, with a mass of 0.
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curie
What is the # of disintegrations that occur in 1 second for 1 gram of radium
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2
n 0
235 1 93 140 1
U + n ---> ____ + Kr + Ba + n 92 0 36 56 0 |
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