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alpha - 2 neutrons and 2 protons released or neutron collision with a fissionable nucleus resulting in the fissioning of the atom into two fission fragments and more neutrons creating two atoms each a little less than half the Atomic Mass of the original atom

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What radiation results in the greatest change in atomic number?

Setting aside spontaneous fission, which is the natural "splitting" of an atom into fissin fragments, it is alpha decay that results in the greatest change in atomic number. The alpha particle carries off a helium-4 nucleus, which is a pair of protons and a pair of neutrons. Atomic number of an element involved in an alpha decay goes down by two.


Why does alpha radiation produce the greatest change in mass number?

Alpha radiation involves the ejection of a helium nucleus, which has a mass number of 4. This results in the largest change in mass number compared to beta and gamma radiation, which involve the emission of electrons or photons with much smaller masses.


What is the change in the atomic number when an atom emits gamma radiation?

The atomic number does not change when gamma radiation is emitted.


What type of radiation results in the least change in atomic number?

A gamma ray is released from atomic nuclei under certain conditions, and the generation of a gamma ray photon alonewill not change the mass of an atomic nucleus. The gamma ray is a form of electromagnetic energy. Other forms of radiation released from nuclei are particulate, and the particles released take mass from the nucleus with them when they go. Beta radiation takes a little, and alpha radiation takes a lot more.


How are the atomic number and mass number of a nuclide affected by the emisson of gramma radiation?

Any change of the atomic number.


How is the atomic number changed by gamma decay?

There is no change in atomic number with the emission of gamma radiation. Unlike alpha or beta radiation, it does not have any kind of particles. It's emission results only when an excited nuclei goes to an unexcited state by emitting these.


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What is the Additive inverse of the greatest negative integer?

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