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What happens to the mass of a sample containing a radioactive element during its half-life?
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What happens to a radioactive nucleus when it emits alpha particle and What happens to a radioactive nucleus when it emits alpha particle?
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What happens to all radioactive isotopes?
All radioactive isotopes will disintegrate.
What happens to a region when radioactive particles are released?
This region become a radioactive contaminated area.
What happens when you put a magnet on a radioactive element such as uranium?
The magnet would absorb any radiation and particles emitted by the radioactive element, just as anything else you might put there would. I'm not up on my nuclear decay, but in the event that alpha or beta particles were emitted, or any other ones with a net charge, the presence of the magnet would deflect them somewhat from the direction they would otherwise have taken.
What happens when strong forces are not sufficient enough to hold an unstable nuclei together?
Such an element is radioactive and to stabilised itself its nucleus emits the alpha and beta particles along with gamma rays till it is converted into a stable nucleus.
What happens to an element when it emits radioactive particles?
IT changes into a new, usually lighter element.
What happens when radioactive element decays?
Carbon gets released
What happens to radioactive materials if you do not use them?
That depends on the radioactive material. But whether you use it or not, the radioactive material will decay into other elements over the course of time. The time it takes for half of the material to decay into something else is called the "half-life". The more radioactive the substance is, the faster it decays. The half-life of a radioactive element can be measured from fractions of a second to billions of years.
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.
What happens to a radioactive nucleus when it emits alpha particle and What happens to a radioactive nucleus when it emits alpha particle?
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What happens to atoms that are radioactive?
Its nucleus emits radioactive particles continuously.
What happens to all radioactive isotopes?
All radioactive isotopes will disintegrate.
What happens when you burn radioactive materials?
In that case, the radioactive materials will pollute the atmosphere.
What happens to a radioactive material over time?
It disintegrates into its daughter nuclei that are much more stabler than the radioactive nuclei. If a sample of radioacictive material is left it will decay into another element over a period of time. Note that complete decay is not possible. A fraction of the original radioactive material will always remain in the sample.
What happens to a region when radioactive particles are released?
This region become a radioactive contaminated area.
What happens to the last atom of an element undergoing radioactive decay-since the element decays as a half-life what happens to the very last atom When does it decay?
This is the common confusion between a bulk statistical property (halflife) and the behaviour of individual objects (atoms). Atoms do not have halflives, they have a quantum mechanical probability (aka wavefunction) for decaying at any given moment.You might get a better feeling for this by doing the coin flipping experiment. Take a large number of coins, each coin has a 50% probability of being heads (decaying) on each flip and if all the coins are flipped at the same time and the coins showing heads are eliminated the halflife of the coin collection is 1 flip. You cannot predict when the last coin will come up heads, it could happen on the very first flip if all the coins in the collection come up heads on the first flip or it could never happen if after all other coins are eliminated by coming up heads the last one always keeps coming up tails forever.Another variant of this experiment, but with a "material" with a longer halflife is to use dice, each die has a 16.7% probability of being 1 (decaying) on each roll and if all the dice are rolled at the same time and the dice showing 1 are eliminated the halflife of the die collection is just under 4 rolls.
What happens during radioactive dating?
Radioactive dating is carried out with substances which were formed at some unknown point in the past and contained a known proportion of a radioactive isotope of some element. Radioisotopes decay into other elements at a fixed and known rate. So, if you know how much of the radioactive isotope is still left in the sample, then you can work out how long it would have taken for the rest to have decayed into other elements. That gives the age of the sample.
