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Why is a sample of uranium compound found to be losing mass gradually?
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The cause is the radioactive decay of uranium isotopes.
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To perform Uranium-235 dating on a sample what must be true?
The sample must contain Uranium-235.
A compound is 80.0 carbon and 20.0 hydrogen by mass Assume a 100g sample of this compound How many grams of each element are in this sample?
Mass of C= 80.0 g Mass of H =20.0 g
What is the percentage of Ba compound when 0.269 g sample of Ba compound was treated with excess H2SO4 0.0891 g of BaSo4 was formed?
32%
When a .269 g sample of barium compound was treated with excess H2SO4 .0891 g of BaSO4 formed What is the percentage of barium in the compound?
32%
A sample of the compound prepared in this experiment weighing 0.1021 g is dissolved in HNO?
This is not a question.
To perform Uranium-235 dating on a sample what must be true?
The sample must contain Uranium-235.
How much Pu 239 is typically found a uranium sample?
A pure and fresh prepared uranium sample don't contain plutonium; only the irradiated (in a nuclear reactor) uranium contain plutonium.
What do you do to perform Uranium-235 dating on a sample?
The purest uranium is obtained after a long series of chemical processes. Ex.: grinding, dissolving, filtering, ion exchange separation, solvent extraction, etc.
The physicist Henri bacquerel discovered radioactivity while working with a sample of?
uranium
How many elements are in uranium?
In a pure sample, one (uranium itself). In ores, traces of lead, thorium and rare earth elements are usually present.
How many atoms are present in a 15 mol sample of uranium?
Approx. 9.1024 atoms.
Concentration activity of uranium in soil sample?
The concentration of uranium in soils is considered as normal in the range 0,3 μg/kg -- 10 mg/kg.
How did Martin Klaproth discover uranium?
Uranium was discovered in 1789 (as an oxide in the mineral pitchblende) by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, studying a mineral sample from Joachimow. The pure uranium was obtained in 1841 by Eugene Melchior Peligot.
A sample of an element consists of the same type of atom. What does a sample of a compound consist of?
Identical molecules.
Is uranium found in the atmosphere?
Uranium can be detected in the atmosphere near uranium plants and mines. Working with care the concentration is extremely low and without significance.But if the sample is sufficiently great any element can be detected in any atmosphere.
Why silicon dioxide cannot be the only compound in the sample of sand?
sand is a mixture, not a compound.. silicon dioxide is just a compound
Is a compound same through out?
A sample of a pure compound consists of the same molecules throughout its mass.
