Radioactive Decay

No, the splitting of atoms is nuclear fission.

Lead-208 is formed by alpha decay (emission of alpha particles) from polonium-212.

Radium-226--------------------Radon-222 + alpha

No. Carbon dating tells how long ago something died (more specifically, when it stopped absorbing carbon). Things that were never alive or are more than ~70,000 years old have to be dated by analyzing for other isotopes or isoptopic ratios. I started to explain carbon dating in more detail, but I realized I was going to have to write a short novel to explain it in any more detail and do a good job. So, unless something was written on a stone tablet by grinding a dead bird into the tablet, you could not carbon date text carved on stone. Similarly, carbon dating an old, written text tells you when the plant/animal that was used for a writing surface died. It does not tell you when the text was written (but I believe that, generally, the ages are fairly close).

Carbon-14 undergoes beta decay, becoming nitrogen-14 which is stable.

Energy and electrical charge are two quantities that are always conserved in nuclear decay equation.

Neutrons have no charge, but have mass. This is also true of neutrinos, though the mass is considered negligible for most purposes.

Cobalt-60 decays by beta particle emission to highly excited isomers of Nickel-60, as these isomers relax to the ground state of Nickel-60 highly energetic gamma rays are emitted.

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A helium nucleus - more precisely, a helium-4 nucleus - is called an alpha particle. The corresponding decay would be called alpha decay.

The first step is an alpha decay to (guess what!) uranium 235. You can probably take it from there.

This is the alpha radioactive decay.

No, gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation which has no charge.

Alpha rot follows.

Becquerel was conducting experiments with phosphorescent minerals. Expose them to sunlight and they glow for a while. He placed these materials on photographic plates which had heavy paper on them to stop the sunlight from penetrating and exposing the plates. He prepares some photographic plates and it was overcast for several days and he could not do the experiment. He placed the plates in a desk drawer the first day and after several days of bad weather, decided to develop the plates anyway. They had been exposed. He looked in the drawer and it contained some ore samples containing uranium. The radioactive decay of the uranium had penetrated the paper coverings and had exposed the plates.

It's not just Cesium 137. Of the 3000 or so known isotopes, MOST undergo radioactive decay. Only a fairly small percentage of the isotopes are stable. Usually, stability is achieved when the amount of neutrons, compared to the amount of protons, is "just right" - not too few, not too many. For the heavier elements (beyond lead), stability is no longer possible for ANY isotope.

every 12 is a half life aka look in the book idiot

2.25 x 10 15j

A beta particle

Either non-carbon dating, if that's what you mean, or nothing.

But technically, there is no real antonym of "carbon dating".

The reaction is:
Po-216----------------alpha particle-----------------Pb-212

All isotopes of polonium can undergo alpha decay, a small number of isotopes can also undergo beta decay, K capture decay, or gamma decay.

Too many or too few neutrons.