Radioactive decay

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August 13, 2014

 

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An example of alpha decay takes place when uranium decays into thorium by emitting an alpha particle. Beta decay (?) is the conversion of a neutron into a proton and an electron, where the electron is expelled from the atom as a ?-particle. When this occurs the mass of the atom will not change, though the atomic number will increase by one, since there is an additional proton, an example of this is the decay carbon-14 into the nitrogen...
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In contrast, nuclear fission is the splitting of an atoms’ nucleus into smaller parts, releasing a large amount of energy in the process. (The energy produced is from the direct conversion of matter into energy, according to Einstein’s equation E=mc2). This is usually done by firing a neutron at the atoms’ nucleus...
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