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How are radioactive isotopes different from isotopes?
Both isotopes and radioactive isotopes are pretty much the same but radioactive isotopes are better because it can be used to make medicine.
What does darmstadtium make?
By radioactive decay of Ds other radioactive isotopes are appearing.
Can isotopes be radioactive or non-radioactive?
No not all isotopes are radioactive, However there certainly are several elements which have no stable isotopes.these are the man made elements also known as "Not found in nature". such as:Tc - Technetium (43)Pm - Promethium (61)Np - Neptunium (93)Pu - Plutonium (94)Am - Americum (95)Cm - Curium (96)Bk - Berkelium (97)Cf - Californium (98)Es - Einsteinium (99)Fm - Fermium (100)No.No, not all isotopes are radioactive. Only atoms that are unstable (carbon-14, etc.) are radioactive
What are 2 radioactive isotopes that make them useful?
Two examples are: carbon-14 and cobalt-60.
Can you make hydrogen a radioactive element?
Hydrogen has one very rare radioactive isotope: hydrogen-3, commonly known as tritium; also some artificial radioactive isotopes as 4H, 5H, 6H.
Why can scientists make technetium synthetically but not gold?
You might get gold but these obtained isotopes are radioactive and unstable; so it is useless.
How man protons does an element have to have to make it radioactive?
An element can be radioactive regardless of its number of protons. Radioactivity depends on the specific isotopes of an element, which can have different numbers of neutrons. Elements with unstable isotopes that undergo radioactive decay typically have too few or too many neutrons compared to the number of protons.
How are isotopes different from one another?
Isotopes are atoms that have the same number of protons, but different number of neutrons in the nucleus of the atom. So the Carbon atom normally has 12 protons and 12 neutrons, but a few carbon atoms have 12 protons and 14 neutrons. The number of protons in the nucleus and electrons in the shell determine the properties of the element, but the extra neutrons can cause the element to be a little heavier or lighter than normal.
How isotopes can be used to benefit humans?
Isotopes can be used in various fields such as medicine (e.g. for diagnosis and treatment), agriculture (e.g. to track nutrients in plants), industry (e.g. for material testing), and environmental sciences (e.g. for pollution monitoring). Their unique properties make them useful in understanding biological processes, tracing element pathways, and detecting abnormalities in various systems.
Do different isotopes of an atom retain the properties of the atom?
Different isotopes retain almost but not quite all of the chemical properties of the atom. They have different physical properties --obviously atomic mass--but most physical properties differ only slightly if at all. (That is why it took a massive effort during World War II to enrich uranium in its U-235 isotope enough to make an atomic bomb. The method that finally proved most efficient was gaseous diffusion, using a gaseous halide of uranium; the diffusion rate of molecules varies with molecular mass, and many hundreds of stages were required to succeed.) The most noticeable differences in physical properties are between H-1 and H-2, and some chemical kinetic properties have been shown to be different as a result.
Is hydrogen radioactive?
Not necessarily. Ozone is a molecule made up of oxygen atoms. A molecule is not radioactive, but its atoms might be. Radioactivity is a function of the arrangement / number of nucleons in the nucleus of an atom. It is possible to make ozone from one or more radioactive iosotopes of oxygen. But simply forming ozone does not make the atoms radioactive. Ozone generators, especially corona based ones, make a lot of electrical noise that can be picked up with a radio. But the "radio activity" stops when the generator is turned off. And it has nothing to do with ozone, but everything to do with the tiny "lightning bolts" used to make ozone. Ozone is unstable, and decays with time. So in that way, it is like a radioactive element, in that it has a half life. But unlike radioactive elements, ozone's half life is a function of what its environment is, temperature, humidity, and solar radiation.
Does silicon undergo radioactive decay?
The 3 isotopes that make up all naturally occurring silicon (28, 29, 30) on earth are all stable and thus do not undergo radioactive decay. But other silicon isotopes that are lighter or heavier can be produced by particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, nuclear explosions, or rarely cosmic rays do undergo radioactive decay via either -Beta, +Beta, or Gamma emission depending on isotope.Silicon does exist in space near very active stars, supernovas, etc. in the form of isotopes that undergo radioactive decay.The longest lived silicon isotope (32) that will undergo radioactive decay, has a halflife of roughly 700 years and thus will effectively completely decay to stable sulfur-32 in less than 4000 years. All other silicon isotopes that undergo radioactive decay have halflives so short that they finish decaying to stable isotopes of other elements in much less than a single day.
