Exam 10: Nuclear Chemistry

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A sample of a dish from an archaeological dig gave 18 500 disintegrations per gram of carbon per day .A 1.00-g sample of carbon from a modern source gave 22 080 disintegrations per day.If the decay constant of carbon-14 is 1.2 * 10-4 y-1,What is the age of the dish?

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The U-238 decay series ends at Pb-206 .Which processes are used in this radioactive series to reach Pb-206?

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Nuclides that lie above the band of stability are proton rich.

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A nuclide undergoes positron emission to form 22Ne .What is the nuclide?

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The binding energy of a nucleus is

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What nuclide is formed when 90Sr undergoes β\beta decay?

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What type of particle is captured and what type is emitted in the nucleosynthesis Fe →\rarr 54Mn

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If a nuclide lies above the band of stability, it should decay by

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What is the time needed for the activity of a radium-226 source to change from 1.5 Ci to 0.50 Ci? (The half-life of radium-226 is 1.60 * 103 y.)

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Which of the following nuclei is likely to capture an electron? What is the daughter nuclide produced?

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What type of particle is emitted in the reaction below? Give an example of this process. What type of particle is emitted in the reaction below? Give an example of this process.

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A nuclide emits a β\beta particle to form 24Mg .What is the nuclide?

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The nuclide 29P decays by ejecting a β\beta particle.

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All of the following are stable except

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How many nucleons does an α\alpha particle contain?

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Bombarding 54Fe with a neutron results in emission of a proton and formation of

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The half-life of plutonium-239 is 24 100 years .Calculate the percent of a plutonium sample left after 100 years.

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All the following are predicted to be unstable except

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When a positron encounters an electron,both are annihilated and converted to energy.

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A nuclide emits a neutron to form 136I .What is the nuclide?

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