Nuclear Chemistry

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What is nuclear fusion?

Atoms combining resulting in mass defect

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What is nuclear fission?

Atoms breaking apart resulting in mass defect

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Mass defect?

Small amount of mass getting converted into large amounts of energy

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Radioactivity

Atoms decay from unstableness

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Why are atoms radioactive?

When atoms have too many protons, the repulsive forces overcome the neutron and the neutron splits

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Isotope

Same element, different number of neutrons

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Alpha decay

4/2 He

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Beta decay

0/-1 e

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Positron decay

0/+1 e

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What are half lives

Time it takes for half of isotopes to decay

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Least dangerous to most dangerous radiations

Alpha → beta → gamma