Its nucleus is unstable.
It will have either too many neutrons or too few neutrons to be stable or one or more protons or neutrons will be in excited metastable states.
Yes. A radioactive atom is a radioactive atom. If that atom exists as a single atom and is uncombined and it is radioactive, it's radioactive. If that same atom is chemically combined with another or other atoms, it's still radioactive. It's just that simple.
An unstable atom is a radioactive atom.
A radioactive atom is an atom that has an unstable nuclear force, and therefore either absorbs or emits a radioactive particle.
A radioactive atom is an atom of an element with an unstable nucleus.
radioactive isotope
No, it's called "radioactive." "Retroactive" is something that's active in regards to the past.
The usual Carbon-12 is not radioactive. Uranium is radioactive. Radioactive means that the atom splits and spits out some energy or matter (with matter, the atom changes to another atom). Luckily, all the atoms don't split at once.
They originate in the nucleus of the atom.
The initial atom is transformed in another atom.
No, not always.
unstable, radioactive
the unstable nucleus of an atom