Nuclear Chem Vocab

a high-mass positively charged particle, emitted during radioactive decay made up of two protons and two neutrons; a helium nucleus.

• Alpha particle
• Beta Particle
• Gamma Ray
• Omicron Particle

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

an electron emitted during nuclear decay when a neutron changes into a proton.

• Beta particle
• Alpha Particle
• Gamma Ray
• Delta ray

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

A nuclear fission process in which neutrons produced by fission trigger more fissions in a continuous way.

• Chain reaction
• Nuclear decay
• Fission
• Fusion

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Any spontaneous change in the particle makeup and/or total energy of the nucleus of an unstable atom.

• Nuclear decay
• Chain reaction
• gamma ray
• Fusion

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The splitting of a large nucleus into two smaller nuclei and several free neutrons

• Nuclear Fission
• Nuclear Fusion
• Radioactivity
• Beta particle

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The violent joining of two small nuclei together to form a larger one under extremely energetic conditions.

• Nuclear Fusion
• Nuclear Fission
• Chain reaction
• Nuclear explosion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

a photon of energy in the highest frequency band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

• Gamma ray
• Alpha particle
• Beta particle
• Omega ray

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

the length of time required for one half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to decay.

• Half-life
• Whole-life
• No-life
• Radioactivity

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

the emission of rays and particles during radioactive decay.

• Radioactivity
• Half-life
• Fusion
• Fission

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8