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Is it possible to make a gamma with just an electron gun and something that will make it short enough to produce gamma rays?
No. Gamma radiation is photons that emanate from the nucleus in response to a reduction in that nucleus' excitation state. The interaction of electrons, on the other hand, produces x-rays. X-rays, while still photons, are generally less in energy than gamma radiation. Though there is some overlap, and while it is true that a photon is a photon, gamma radiation and x-rays are not the same thing.
Gamma rays have the same basic nature as?
Light, also known as photons
What is gamma made of?
They are an electro-magnetic wave much like visible light. After a sub atomic particle interaction such as radioactive decay, the nucleus can be left in an excited state. It realeases this energy in the form of a gamma ray.
What happen to atomic number and mass number of nucleus when it emits electron?
"Number" goes up by one, mass stays the same.
Do X-rays consist of radiation similar to gamma rays?
Both X-rays and gamma rays are forms of electromagnetic radiation, so yes, the radiation is similar. It's the same type of radiation, in fact.In older sources you may see X-rays listed as having longer wavelengths (and lower energy) than gamma rays, but in modern usage the wavelengths of the two overlap to a degree. The general distinction is that electromagnetic radiation emitted by an atomic nucleus is a "gamma ray" and electromagnetic radiation emitted by an electron outside the nucleus is an "X-ray" even if the two have the same wavelength.
Is it possible to make a gamma with just an electron gun and something that will make it short enough to produce gamma rays?
No. Gamma radiation is photons that emanate from the nucleus in response to a reduction in that nucleus' excitation state. The interaction of electrons, on the other hand, produces x-rays. X-rays, while still photons, are generally less in energy than gamma radiation. Though there is some overlap, and while it is true that a photon is a photon, gamma radiation and x-rays are not the same thing.
Are the gamma rays photons in the sun because they act the same?
the core
Gamma rays have the same basic nature as?
Light, also known as photons
What change in atomic mass when an atom emits gamma radiation?
It remains the same.
What happens when an atom emits?
It is actually the nucleus of the atom that emits energy. The energy we can harness comes from fission or splitting of the nucleus of uranium235 or plutonium239. The nucleus splits into two parts which recoil and give up their kinetic energy as heat when they are stopped in the fuel, and there is also some energy from gamma rays at the same time. Basically in the process the final results of the fission have lost mass, and this appears as energy following the relation E = M x C2. Atoms can also emit energy as radioactivity, without fissioning. This can be alpha, beta, or gamma radiation. Alpha and beta are particles, so that the resulting nucleus is changed and there results a different element. Gamma is a penetrating ray in the electromagnetic spectrum and corresponds to a change in the energy state of the nucleus, but it remains the same element.
Does the emission of alpha beta and gamma radiations take place from a nucleus at the same time?
No.
How does magnetism effect gamma radiation?
No. Gamma rays are photons (light particles). Photons are particles with no mass, no charge and no magnetic moment.
What is gamma made of?
They are an electro-magnetic wave much like visible light. After a sub atomic particle interaction such as radioactive decay, the nucleus can be left in an excited state. It realeases this energy in the form of a gamma ray.
What is the particle that is same as helium nucleus out of alpha and beta and gamma?
Alpha because it has a mass of 4
Why is gamma ray radiation used for x rays?
Depending upon the definitions used, there IS some overlap between the wavelengths for x-rays and gamma radiation". In nuclear medicine, a diagnostic X-Ray machine might produce the same 140 KeV photons as those produced produced by nuclear decay in Technicium, while theraputic photons produced by a particle accelerator might have lower energy. Some older standards used a wavelength such as 0.01 nanometers as the threshold below which shorter wavelength (higher energy) photons were described as "gamma rays". More-recent conventions tend to use that term to refer only to radiation emitted by the nucleus of an isotope, whereas the term "X-Ray" is used if the radiation is due to electrons (either changing orbitals or being accelerated). In astronmy, a gamma-ray burst might be caused by either mechanism. In meteorology, gamma rays from lightning discharges are actually produced by electrons (by deceleration, in the same way that photons are produced in a synchrotron "light source").
Do alpha particle same group with gamma ray?
Alpha particles are in the same group with gamma rays. Gamma rays helps remove all of the excise energy in a nucleus. Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons that are bound together.
What is the mass number of a gamma particle?
Gamma rays belong to the electromagnetic spectrum. In frequency and consequent energy the spectrum runs from very very long low energy radio waves up to the highest energy and frequencies which include gamma rays. Somewhere between those very low energies and the highest energies lies the visible light frequencies and energies. You know them as ordinary light. And I suspect you've heard light consists of photons, which are massless. I mention the visible light to point out that gamma rays belong to the same EM spectrum so they too are made of the same stuff that visible light is made of...photons. And photons have no mass; they are massless bits of energy. In short, gamma particles, which are photons, have no mass. ANS.
