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What is meant by a radioactive element?
A radioactive element is an element that readily undergoes nuclear decay - the nucleus spontaneously emits subatomic particles as the element changes into another element.
How is it possible for an element to decay forward in the periodic table that is to decay to an element of higher atomic number?
When elements form other elements of a higher atomic number, the process by which that happens is called nuclear fusion, not radioactive decay, and it normally happens only inside stars.
Which form of radioactive decay consists of photons?
Gamma rays.
How can an atom of one element change to an atom of another element?
By losing protons. Atomic number determines what kind of element it is. ---------------------------- This can only happen if the nucleus changes its number of protons because the nucleus is unstable and undergoes radioactive decay. As it changes it will emit some form of radiation
What results in radioactive decay causes loss of one or more protons?
a new element is formed
What is the breakdown of a radioactive isotope of the same element or of another element?
radioactive decay
Can a radioactive element completely decay so that it is all stable matter?
A radioactive element (atom) can decay up to a stable isotope.
What is the lightest element that can undergo radioactive decay and what type of decay occurs in that element?
The lightest "element" that can undergo radioactive decay is the isotope hydrogen-3, which undergoes beta decay. The lightest element with no radioactively stable isotopes is technetium, and its isotopes have different modes of decay.
What kind of decay can change one element to another kind of element?
That would be radioactive decay.
What are the properties of radioactive decay?
Radioactive decay has the following properties: 1. No element can completely decay. 2. The number of atoms decaying in a particular period is proportional to the number of atoms present in the beginning of that period. 3. Estimate of radioactive decay can be made by half life and decay constant of a radioactive element.
The time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample of a radioactive element to decay is the element's?
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When elements such as uranium and plutonium decay do they form different elements chemical reactions or larger compounds?
When an element "decays", it forms a different element. This is the definition of "decay" when referring to radioactive elements.
What must occur before a radioactive atoms ceases to undergo further radioactive decay?
A stable, nonradioactive atom must be formed.
Radioactive decay occurs when?
When a radioactive element slowly turns into another element/s when it emits various particles.
Can one element change into a different element?
Yes, but only if it is radioactive. Radioactive elements change into different elements through radioactive decay.
As radioactive uranium decay it turns into what stable element?
Heavy radioactive elements (parent nuclei) decay to form daughter products that are as varied in number as the parents. Each heavy element has its own daughter.To find the decay mode and end products of the radioactive decay for a given isotope, use a Table of Nuclides. A link is provided to the interactive chart posted by the National Nuclear Data Center at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.The final stable element formed by all radioactive decay is lead (element number 82).
What other solids can destroy einsteinium?
Einsteinium as a radioactive element has itself a radioactive decay.
