Nuclear Chemistry Quiz Review

Half-life is

• the name of an awesome video game
• the amount of time needed for half a radioactive sample to decay
• about 40 years for most men.
• the time needed for  all of a sample to decay

The three types of radioactive decay are

• decay, fission, fusion

• electrons, protons, neutrons.

• alpha, beta, gamma

• milli, deci, and centi

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Two atoms of the same element but with different mass numbers are called________

• electrons
• isotopes
• ions
• reaction partners

Which process involves the joining of small nuclei?

• Beta decay
• Alpha decay
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear fusion

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Which process involves the splitting of large nuclei?

• Beta decay
• Alpha decay
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear fusion

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isotopes of the same element have a same number of ____________ and a different number of ________________.

• protons; neutrons

• neutrons; protons

• neutrons; electrons

• protons; electrons

How is plutonium used in a practical way

• nuclear reactors

• nuclear weapons

• light bulbs

• lasers

Nuclear reactions involve the particles in the ____.

• electron cloud
• neutrons
• nucleus
• half-life

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Nuclear Power's source comes from _________________.

• Uranium or Plutonium
• Coal
• Natural Gas
• Oil and/or Coal

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When the nuclei of certain isotopes (atoms) are unstable and spontaneously decompose, this is called ________________.

• radioactive
• a melt down
• ionization
• half-life

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