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You will need to complete this correctly showing all work before you can take the Quiz/test for Nuclear Chemistry.
Part I Answer the following question in complete sentences and/or all work.
1. What is radioactivity and how are the two types different?
2. Give the composition (symbol) and charge, penetrating power/material to stop it, and a nuclear equation to generate the alpha particle.
3. In the space below, write the question and answer Problems 37 on pg779 in the Addison Wesley Chemistry book.
4. Explain half life and give one radioactive decay reaction including its half life from Fig26.8 (U-238 decay series). Do Problems 33 and 34 from pg779 in above book.
5. Define nuclear fission and fusion. Give one similarilies and one difference between the two.
6. If you have to memorize one thing about nuclear chemistry, it is that nuclear chemistry deals with
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