Nuclear Decay

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Property of Decay 1

Random: Unable to predict which particle will decay when

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Property of Decay 2

Spontaneous : Occurs without external influence or cause

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Binding energy per nucleon

Average energy requires to remove a nucleon from a nucleus

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Binding energy

minimum energy required to separate all individual nucleons of a nucleus

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Conditions for fusion

  1. High temperature and pressure to overcome repulsion between nuclei

  2. High pressure: Probability of nuclide interactions is increased, facilitating fusion reactions.

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Alpha decay

  1. Low Penetration power

  2. High Penetration Power

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Beta Decay

  1. Medium penetration power

  2. medium ionisation power

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gamma decay

  1. High penetrating power

  2. low ionising power