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Plutonium 239 emit: alpha, gamma, spontaneous fission neutrons
Uranium 235 emit: alpha, gamma, spontaneous fission neutrons
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What is a advantages of uranium rays?
Uranium is not used for the radiations emitted.
How do minerals containing uranium darken photographic film?
Emitting alpha particles and gamma rays. These rays affect the photographic emulsion. The natural radioactivity of uranium was discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.
What is the difference between radiation exposure and contamination?
Radiation exposure is being exposed to radiation (as x rays, gamma, beta, neutrons, alpha, ...etc) but contamination is breathing or ingesting something polluted with contaminants as mercury, carbon dioxide, uranium, plutonium, arsenic, ...etc
What was the subject of Marie Curie's scientific research while she was in school?
uranium rays
Why isnt gamma radiation listed in the breakdown of uranium?
This is completely wrong. The BREAKDOWN of uranium. Gamma rays dont change the atomic number and mass number so it wouldnt do anything to the breakdown of uranium.
Gamma ray sources of the radiation?
Various radioactive substances such as Plutonium and Uranium give off a combination of alpha, beta and gamma rays as the isotope decays.
Can plutonium be used in X-rays?
No. X-rays are generated by a vacuum tube, something like the picture tube in an old-style TV. The regions of the electromagnetic spectrum identified as "X-rays" and "gamma rays" overlap; radiation resulting from an electronic energy transition is an "X-ray" and radiation resulting from a nuclear process is a "gamma ray" even if the two have exactly the same wavelength.
What is Atom Bom?
weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of such heavy elements as plutonium or uranium. When a neutron strikes the nucleus of an atom of the isotopes uranium 235 or plutonium-239, it causes that nucleus to split into two fragments, each of which is a nucleus with about half the protons and neutrons of the original nucleus. In the process of splitting, a great amount of thermal energy, as well as gamma rays and two or more neutrons, is released..
What is a advantages of uranium rays?
Uranium is not used for the radiations emitted.
Does uranium give of invisible rays?
Yes, uranium isotopes emit alpha particles, gamma rays, beta rays, spontaneous fission neutrons.
What were the rays emanating from uranium?
* Alpha rays (particles) * Beta rays * Gamma rays * Spontaneous fission neutrons
How do people use uranium rays?
Uranium has many applications but the use of emitted rays is not important.Uranium is used as nuclear fuel or for atomic bombs.
How do minerals containing uranium darken photographic film?
Emitting alpha particles and gamma rays. These rays affect the photographic emulsion. The natural radioactivity of uranium was discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896.
Can uranium hurt you?
Yes, uranium can leave rays which can pass the body and cause cancer or death.
Why can nuclear reactors be dangerous?
Nuclear reactors are dangerous because they emit ionizing radiation that damages the body. Nuclear reactors rely on fission so when the atom splits Uranium or Plutonium emits alpha particles, beta particles, x-rays, and gama rays. The most "dangerous" is gamma rays since they can cross though anything but layers of concrete and/lead
What science words start with the letter you?
· ultraviolet rays · uranium
The giving off high energy rays are called?
uranium
