Final Chemistry Notebook

Learning Goal for this section:
Explain and compare nucluear reactions ( radioactive decay,fission and fusion), the energy changes associated with
them and their asscociated safety issues.
Notes Section:
lpha looks like the nuclues of a heluim particle. Becaus they both have 2 protons and two nuetrons
aughter is what we eject the aftter alpha particle. It pushes the nuclues 2 meters in air due to the
eason it doesnt have Enough energy. It ejects because it is trying to become a stable atom,
hanges becasue of the condition of the nuclues. We use the periodic table to determine the new
thing which woulld have two less.Polumiom will give off two and become lead to beacome stable. It
s not necasary to get stable only accurs sometimes.
eta have the mass of electron it has very small amount of mass.It is negative. We wil take give
wyay aelectrons so it becomes a proton . Its basically another way to make it nueatral. Cannot cau
oves little further then beta.The betta goes up by 1.
or example
ranium becomes neptium becuse uranium adds one to become NP.
roton give its postive charge to become nuertral. It makes it less table which makes it transform.
Beta particles decay
e+
IN this situation the proton gives off it postive charge by going up one because the postive gives
away to become nuetral.
WHile E- it goes down 1
Gamma radiation has to go through a transformation such as alpha particle decay or beta decay
cause gamma radiation but slighty sometimes it does not
Half life;
After two days you would have half the mass due to the fact that it goes through a two day procce
Mon=100g
tues-less
wen-less]'
thur=25g
sat-less
sun-12.5.g
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