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Of course. If it is exposed to air or even skin, it can do majour damage. Ie. the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl.
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If radium and chlorine combine to form radium chloride what is true about the compound?
As radium is radioactive, radium chloride would also be radioactive. Any compounds make with any radioactive material are radioactive, and they cannot be "not" radioactive. Radioactive material doesn't really care if it is "alone" or in compound; it will be radioactive in any case.
Where is radioactive material?
There is radioactive material in any country that has done nuclear tests. In The United States of America there were many tests. These were mostly in Nevada. If you were to get clearance to go to the test site you would see the craters everywhere.
If a radioactive material has a half-life of 10 years what fraction of the material will remain after 30 years?
One eighth would be left.
Where would you dispose the radioactive material from nuclear power plants when you run out of disposal grounds?
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What is the relationship between radioactive isotope and radioactive dating?
In radiometric dating, the amount of a certain radioactive isotope in an object is compared with a reference amount. This ratio can then be used to calculate how long this isotope has been decaying in the object since its formation. For example, if you find that the amount of radioactive isotope left is one half of the reference amount, then the amount of time since the formation of the object would be equal to that radioactive isotope's half-life.
What if you put a whole bunch of barrels of radioactive waste in your house would you develop super powers or extra arms?
If cancer is classified as 'extra arms', then the second one.
A particular element has a half life of 27 days after 54 days have elapsed how much of the radioactive material is left?
In one cycle, the material would be reduced to one half of the original, leaving one half of the material. In the second cycle (54/27 = 2), there would be 1/2 of that half, leaving 1/4 of the original material.
Why does radioactive parent material break down into daughter material?
A fundamental property of radioactive material is that the atomic nucleus has an unstable configuration. The nucleus of a single atom of such material may break down at any instant, or may never break down at all, but with a large number of atoms in a collection, there is a statistical probability that half of them will break down in a given amount of time, which is known as the "half life" for that radioactive material. Exactly why this should be so is a mystery which cannot be adequately explained, but is observed and accepted as such. A deeper understanding of this phenomenon would probably give us a better insight into the true nature of the universe as a whole.
Can you eat radiation?
Well you could eat uranium or other or radioactive waste... But as Uranium is expensive and rare, and radioactive waste is deadly, eating radiation would result in killing you. This will not give you super powers like shown in cartoons, but it will end up with you receiving radiation poisoning.
Is the nuclear fallout from a nuclear reactor meltdown electromagnetic in nature and can it be attracted to magnets?
No, there is no connection between radioactivity and magnetism. However if the radioactive material is magnetic, like iron for example, then this would be attracted to magnets, but this is entirely due to its physical nature and not to whether it is radioactive or not.
What might terrorists incorporate radioactive material into explosives to create?
This would create a so-called 'dirty' bomb or, to use its official term, a radiological explosive device.
