Nuclear Physics

Apparently not. Electromagnetic radiation doesn't have an "anti-" form, and light from antimatter seems to be the same as light...

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A radioactive element is an element with an unstable nucleus, which radiates alpha, beta or gamma radiation and gets converted to...

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Because, like Alabama Man, alpha particles are big, strong, and active! An alpha particle is about 16,000 times more massive than...

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Radon has atomic number 86. That means it has 86 protons. The specific isotope doesn't matter. (It does matter if you want to...

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First it was discovered by Ernest Rutherford that atoms had an area of condensed positive charge in the centre, which he called...

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a star is a light-filled sphere of plasma, held together by gravity. Stars form when clouds of molecular gas collapse into a...

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high temperature high pressure a fuel that can undergo fusion

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All the neutrons in all the elements have the same mass and dimensions. The neutron mass is 1, 674 927 29.10-27 kg.

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Let's see. 1g = 1,000 mg 2g = 2,000 mghalf life of tritium is 12 years. How much will we have after 120 years?We now have 2,000...

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Hello, I have also been trying to research this answer. I have been unsuccessful in finding one, although I've almost come up...

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Americium was first obtained by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James and Albert Ghiorso in 1944 (University of...

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A fast neutron will have an energy of around 1MeV. This equates to about 14 000 km/sec. The Deuterium - Tritium fusion produces...

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read Richard Rhodes book "the making of the atomic bomb" it has everything but the technical specifications on how (which are...

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-2, protons minus electrons equals charge. Neutrons are neutral, they have no charge.

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In all p sublevels there are 3 sublevels, including 6p.

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Photon.

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you don't. you make it in a cyclotron or reactor. it has no stable isotopes.

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It currently provides 19 percent of electricity in the US and a little less world-wide

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Yes. Examples: The hydrogen bomb and the creation of new elements.

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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transuranic_elements and further links for details.

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well ismael is a fish

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No. Nuclear power should be encouraged. However, there have to be limits and controls because it is not appropriate for nuclear...

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Mutual annihilation is the term we usually apply in physics to the combining of a particle and its antiparticle. Under the...

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Sort of... The general tendency is for a larger atom to be less stable. Above a certain point (after lead) no stable atoms are...

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Heat from nuclear fusion produces massive amounts of energy. Thermal energy is usually associated with Light. The concept of heat...

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The stability of a nuclide depends on: the specific neutron/proton ratio that corresponds to a stable nucleus, and or the number...

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hydrogen gas+nucliotic. that's wat my teacha told me,but check in Google

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The term half-life refers to the period in which the radioactivity or number of atoms of a radioactive substance decreases by...

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I'm going to assume that you're wondering why they can travel through matter so easily, which is kind of a layman's term for...

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The loss of binding energy.

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Well, provided with enough energy, any atom can be a "reactant" of fission and fusion. We're usually concerned about atoms...

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235U with a 5% enrichment of 238U is generally used to fuel a controlled nuclear chain reaction. In a navy nuclear application,...

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Because their nuclei are unstable.

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There are several different isotopes of uranium, each with a different half-life. The two most commonly encountered isotopes are...

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The decay of an unstable atom by absorbing a wandering positron into the nucleus, converting a neutron into a proton. One...

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9kg of pure electron matter would consist of around 988,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual electrons. This represents...

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13Al24 -------> 14Si24 + e- This is, however, hypothetical neither Al-24 and Si-24 exist as isotopes of those elements.

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There is no isotope of Uranium 206 - Uranium 217 is the lightest

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If the objects are under free fall near the surface of the Earth, then they are under uniform acceleration due to gravity whose...

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Everything, so to speak, is nuclear powered, because everything ultimately gets its energy from the Sun, and the Sun's energy is...

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This has quite a few meanings, the most common is the starting velocity of an object. u is also somtimes used for kinetic...

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Fissionable material, that is, material with the ability to fission, occurs in some isotopes of heavy elements. The most useful...

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positive and negative

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Wood oxidizes in much the same way that iron does. If it oxidizes fast enough, it burns.

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Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel, a French scientist, while testing phosphorescent materials with...

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Yes, 1H (Hydrogen-1), the most common isotope of hydrogen has a single protons and no neutrons.

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The positron is another name for the anti-electron. Therefore, its antiparticle is the electron.

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Advantages: Almost 0 emissions (very low greenhouse gas emissions). They can be sited almost anywhere unlike oil which is mostly...

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No. Mercury-201, or 201Hg, is stable.

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Argon is electrically complete, in the outer electron shell, making it electro-chemically stable. Placing an electric potential...

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The half life of the most important isotope (239Pu) is 24 200 years. For the half lives of the other isotopes see the link below.

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Iron.

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a small land mammal such as a rat mouse ferret mole ect.

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Bremstrahlung is German for "braking radiation." It refers to radiation that is associated with the positive or negative...

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In general, all atoms are radioactive when they have nuclear configurations that are unstable. You'll recall that the nucleus of...

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The strong nuclear force affects matter by "building" it. Matter as we generally know it is composed of atoms. Atoms are built...

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An isotope of an element is simply an element with the same number of protons, but with a different number of neutrons. Since the...

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All elements except hydrogen are created by nucleosynthesis.

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It would be found in a nuclear physics lab. It does not occur in nature, is manmade, and only a very tiny amount of it has ever...

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Nuclear reactors can be as small as a single room. There are many reactors that are less then 30 MW (a typical reactor is around...

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The uncharged nucleon is the neutron. We use the term nucleon to refer to the particles that make up an atomic nucleus. These you...

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Strong and weak.

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For example, from neptunium-239 is obtained plutonium-239.

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234 Th90

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Alpha particles have an atomic mass number of 4, and a charge of +2. As a result, they are the heaviest and most charged of all...

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Because the daughter isotope eventually reaches a stable state.

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Rutherfordium was first time obtained by Gheorghi Nikolaevici Flerov, Iuri Ţolakovici Ohanessian, Iuri V. Lobanov, V. I....

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Uranium-237 decays by beta- decay to Neptunium-237 with a half-life of 6.75 days, emitting a W- boson which then decays to an...

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No, quarks are not nucleons. A nucleon is a term (in physics) that is given to either of the two component particles of an atomic...

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atomic mass is the number of protons in an atom mass number is the number of protons plus neutrons in an atom

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Yes, Gravitons are hypothetical sub-atomic particles / gauge bosons. These bosons are predicted to behave similarly to photons,...

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One part of a beta- particle. The other part is an electron antineutrino

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No. Beta particles are electrons or positrons that are emitted from the nucleus. They do not come from the electron cloud. In...

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No, whenever an atom emits a positron its atomic number is decreases by one unit (because a proton is converted into a neutron...

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Any element greater in atomic number than lead, and any element with a non-stable ratio of neutrons and protons.

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We do not currently have the technical knowledge to produce controlled fusion reactors on a scale large enough to produce power....

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It detects the ions that are produced when radiation passes through an enclosed sample of gas.

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E=MC2 When energy gets to a certain level, it creates a particle and an antiparticle, and this process is called pair production...

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A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator used in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. A cyclotron operator is a specialist...

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AT = A0 2(-T/H) Where A0 is starting activity, AT is activity at some time T, and H is half-life in units of T.

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The diameter of the atomic nucleus is between 1,75.10-15 m and 15.10-15 m, depending on the chemical element.

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In one of them a positron is emitted. In the other an electron is captured. Since positrons are the antiparticles of electrons,...

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Neutrons in a nuclear fission chain reaction must be controlled for two reasons... First, they must be moderated, or "slowed...

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As far as we know the electron. quarks

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There are two types of beta decay, beta- and beta+. In beta- decay, the weak interaction causes a quark to change from down to...

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In fact, they were.

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Uranium-238, or more properly 92238U, is naturally radioactive. (It does not "become" radioactive.) Radioactivity of an isotope...

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Neutrinos are created in Beta - and Beta + radioactive decay reactions. They are massless, chargeless particles and are extremely...

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Fusion, in general, is the joining of light atomic nuclei to form heavier ones. The simplest form of fusion is the fusing of...

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The theoretical Higgs boson would have zero spin. The neutral and charged pions also have zero spin. Two entangled particles,...

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So that their on the job radiation dosage can be tracked. This is required of their employer by law. If they get a minor over...

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Any of several things, depending on the energy of the neutron, some are: 1eV neutron, not absorbed. 1MeV neutron, absorbed...

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Simple explanation:Conventional bombs explode as a result of chemical reactions, but the atoms themselves that make up the...

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Uranium-238 does not decay by beta decay. It decays by alpha decay.

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In the Geiger-Marsden gold foil experiment, a stream of alpha particles were fired at a sheet of gold foil, one atom thick. This...

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Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. The protons and neutrons are found together in the core of the atom,...

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No. Nitrogen is not naturally radioactive.

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It is Fissured, or Split, into usually two smaller Atoms. This is concurrent with a vast release of Energy. {In E=mc squared - c...

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0, gamma particle are high energy photons.

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Isotopes Isotope is the word we use to talk about two different forms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons...

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