nuclear energy
No, it's called "radioactive." "Retroactive" is something that's active in regards to the past.
No, the splitting of the atom did not occur at the University of Birmingham in the UK. The first experimental demonstration of nuclear fission, which involved splitting the atom, took place at the University of Chicago in the US in 1942.
The process of splitting an atom is called nuclear fission. This is when the nucleus of an atom is split into two or more smaller nuclei, releasing a large amount of energy in the process. Nuclear fission is the process that powers nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
There is no specific atom that will always be radioactive. Any atom with an unstable nucleus can be radioactive, resulting in the emission of radiation. Isotopes of certain elements, such as uranium and plutonium, are more likely to be radioactive due to their relatively large atomic numbers.
The usual Carbon-12 is not radioactive. Uranium is radioactive. Radioactive means that the atom splits and spits out some energy or matter (with matter, the atom changes to another atom). Luckily, all the atoms don't split at once.
During any type of radioactive decay, one isotope (type of atom) will convert into a different isotope.
Splitting water results in oxygen and hydrogen. The water element is separated into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
process of an atom splitting into pieces because he has not any other about this thing
First the radioactive material and split the atom. So it is not a discovery is was hard work.
their is no radioactive material in the construction of any bomb its just a bunch of atoms creating friction and being so excited that they explode in a devistating amount of force.
Energy cannot be "produced", energy cannot be made or destroyed, though we can harvest energy from the wind, sun, fossil fuels and even from splitting an atom
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Radioactive alpha, beta, and gamma radiation are produced during the decay of certain types of unstable atomic nuclei, such as those of radioactive elements like uranium or radium. These types of radiation can also be produced in nuclear reactions, such as those that occur in nuclear power plants or in nuclear weapons.
Some synthetic elements are naturally radioactive due to their unstable atomic structures. For example, elements beyond uranium on the periodic table are typically artificially produced and tend to be radioactive. These elements can emit radiation as they undergo radioactive decay.
Yes. A radioactive atom is a radioactive atom. If that atom exists as a single atom and is uncombined and it is radioactive, it's radioactive. If that same atom is chemically combined with another or other atoms, it's still radioactive. It's just that simple.
No, it's called "radioactive." "Retroactive" is something that's active in regards to the past.
They experience radioactive decay. They emit radiation, changing the state of their nucleus, usually by the loss of protons and neutrons. However, this process is completely random; it can only be predicted as a half-life, or the amount of time it takes half of a certain material to decay. This does not predict when an individual atom will decay, it only predicts when approximately half of the material will have decayed.