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introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay...
so what does the decay of uranium have to do with half life and radioactive decay ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons they contain . these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as r...
how are new radioactive isotopes formed in nature on earth ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
why is carbon-12 like the only element that has a round number atomic mass ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
how do we know that the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-14 is unchanging ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
such isotopes are called radioisotopes , and the process in which they release particles and energy is known as decay . radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is ...
how does decay cause the atom to gain a proton ( such as the change from c-14 to n-14 ) ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of protons , or atomic number , from the mass number . a property closely related to an atom ’ s mass number is its atomic mass . the atomic mass of a single atom is simply its total mass and is typically expressed in atomic mas...
is it because c-14 has an atomic mass of 14 and , since nitrogen has roughly the same mass , it gains a proton to match the mass ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what atom we are looking at ( e.g. , all atoms with six protons are carbon atoms ) ; the number of protons in an atom is called the atomic number . in cont...
how does the discharging/emitting of subatomic particles from an atom result it in it gaining/losing protons ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons...
do cell phones release harmful radiation ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
but what exactly does it mean for something to be radioactive ? radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process .
how did scientists know atoms actually existed when they could n't see them through a microscope ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
how to determine the percentage of c-14 which decays to n-14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
in the fourth paragraph , if the number of protons make the element what it is , what would happen if we could theoretically group together a 119 atoms ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay...
how can we explane the half life of radioactive element ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the relative atomic mass is an average of the atomic masses of all the different isotopes in a sample , with each isotope 's contribution to the average determined by how big a fraction of the sample it makes up . the relative atomic masses given in periodic table entries—like the one for hydrogen , below—are calculate...
if h20 is water , what is it in the periodic table ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope ...
how are the atoms related with humans ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
when carbon 14 decays to nitrogen 14 does it keep its radioactive properties ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
what happens when all carbon 14 becomes nitrogen 14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this...
how do palentologists determine the age of a fossil ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
how can we find the relative atomic mass of an element ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for instance—or , in the case of spider-man , a bite from a radioactive spider . but what exactly does it mean for something to be radioactive ? radioactivity is actually a property of an atom .
and what is exactly the difference between a nuclide and an isotope ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the relative atomic masses given in periodic table entries—like the one for hydrogen , below—are calculated for all the naturally occurring isotopes of each element , weighted by the abundance of those isotopes on earth . extraterrestrial objects , like asteroids or meteors , might have very different isotope abundance...
why does n't light pass through objects if 99.99 % is nothing or free space ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
these two alternate forms of carbon are isotopes . some isotopes are stable , but others can emit , or kick out , subatomic particles to reach a more stable , lower-energy , configuration . such isotopes are called radioisotopes , and the process in which they release particles and energy is known as decay .
how can you determine which isotope is the stable one and which is the radioisotope one ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
on the basis of this fraction , the age of the material can be calculated with accuracy if it is not much older than about 50,000 years . other elements have isotopes with different half lives , and can thus be used to measure age on different timescales . for example , potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion year...
i mean , if everything starts out at the same age , and one year goes by ( which is the hypothetical half-life in this case ) , would n't that mean that all the particles are gone ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the ratio of the original isotope to its decay product and to stable isotopes changes in a predictable way ; this predictability allows the relative abundance of the isotope to be used as a clock that measures the time from the incorporation of the isotope ( e.g. , into a fossil ) to the present . for example , carbon ...
i heard that diamond is made out of carbon , and it is an another isotope of carbon ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
isotopes and radioactive decay as mentioned above , isotopes are different forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons . many elements—such as carbon , potassium , and uranium—have multiple naturally occurring isotopes . carbon-12 contains six protons , six neutrons , and ...
do all the elements transfer and get electrons ( take part in chemical reaction ) accept the noble gases ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this...
the article really does n't go in-depth with this but , where exactly in fossils are scientists looking when they 're carbon dating ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
carbon-14 contains six protons , eight neutrons , and six electrons ; its mass number is 14 ( six protons plus eight neutrons ) . these two alternate forms of carbon are isotopes . some isotopes are stable , but others can emit , or kick out , subatomic particles to reach a more stable , lower-energy , configuration . ...
what part of the fossil do they analyze when looking for radioisotopes and stable isotopes ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
will the atomic number of isotopes be the same or different ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
what 's the difference between the atomic mass and the mass number ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
other elements have isotopes with different half lives , and can thus be used to measure age on different timescales . for example , potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion years , and uranium-235 has a half-life of about 700 million years and has been used to measure the age of moon rocks $ ^2 $ .
how do you know the larger numbers of half-lives , such as potassium-40 having a half-life of 1.25 billion years and uranium-235 has a half-life of about 700 million years , if the discovery of the concept was only implemented in the last 100 or so years ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
extraterrestrial objects , like asteroids or meteors , might have very different isotope abundances . isotopes and radioactive decay as mentioned above , isotopes are different forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons . many elements—such as carbon , potassium , and ura...
is there a more in depth explanation of how a radioisotope can decay into another element ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
for example , if carbon 14 can decay to carbon 12 through the release of 2 neutrons , what determines whether another process occurs in which the carbon 14 decays to nitrogen 14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
what causes a loss of protons in the decay to nitrogen 14 versus the loss of 2 neutrons versus the `` decay '' of carbon 14 to nitrogen 14 through the addition of a proton ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the relative atomic mass is an average of the atomic masses of all the different isotopes in a sample , with each isotope 's contribution to the average determined by how big a fraction of the sample it makes up . the relative atomic masses given in periodic table entries—like the one for hydrogen , below—are calculate...
is one proton added while a neutron is lost ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
is the number of radioisotopes ' neutrons always more than the number of other isotopes ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of protons , or atomic number , from the mass number . a property closely related to an atom ’ s mass number is its atomic mass . the atomic mass of a single atom is simply its total mass and is typically expressed in atomic mas...
what is the formula for finding the atomic mass of a atom ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope ...
so.. as the radioactive isotope kicks out its subatomic particles , it stabilizes ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
how does carbon-14 turn into nitrogen-14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons they contain . these different versions of elemen...
where does the extra proton come from ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
carbon-12 contains six protons , six neutrons , and six electrons ; therefore , it has a mass number of 12 ( six protons plus six neutrons ) . carbon-14 contains six protons , eight neutrons , and six electrons ; its mass number is 14 ( six protons plus eight neutrons ) . these two alternate forms of carbon are isotope...
does one of the neutrons turn into a proton ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the ratio of the original isotope to its decay product and to stable isotopes changes in a predictable way ; this predictability allows the relative abundance of the isotope to be used as a clock that measures the time from the incorporation of the isotope ( e.g. , into a fossil ) to the present . for example , carbon ...
if carbon isotope has 6 protons and seven neutrons in its nucleus what do you think this carbon isotope is called ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
on the basis of this fraction , the age of the material can be calculated with accuracy if it is not much older than about 50,000 years . other elements have isotopes with different half lives , and can thus be used to measure age on different timescales . for example , potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion year...
can radiation be beneficial to humans in a way that we can actually give humans different abilities ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons...
does radiation just happen on it 's own in our environment or is it all human made ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
who first discovered carbon-14 in the first place ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons...
why do atoms have energy ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
what happens if force holding protons together in nuclei for some reason becomes not strong enough ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope ...
how did james chandwick discover the presence of neutron in nucleii of atoms.. ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
why atomis number is defined as the number of protons in the nucleii.. ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
the ratio of the original isotope to its decay product and to stable isotopes changes in a predictable way ; this predictability allows the relative abundance of the isotope to be used as a clock that measures the time from the incorporation of the isotope ( e.g. , into a fossil ) to the present . for example , carbon ...
what molecules make up carbon-13 , carbon-13 and carbon-14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons...
when radiation therapy is used in cancer treatment , does that mean the radioactive particles are released to change the structure of the cancer cell ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
how long does it take for carbon 14 to decay to nitrogen 14 ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
what is the difference between mass number and atomic mass ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
i know how to determine neutrons and protons now but how do you determine electrons ?
introduction radioactivity pops up fairly often in the news . for instance , you might have read about it in discussions of nuclear energy , the fukushima reactor tragedy , or the development of nuclear weapons . it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for in...
these forms of carbon are found in the atmosphere in relatively constant proportions , with carbon-12 as the major form at about 99 % , carbon-13 as a minor form at about 1 % , and carbon-14 present only in tiny amounts $ ^1 $ . as plants pull carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars , the relative amount of carbon-1...
can we make light smaller in order to see the electron ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
is it harder to figure out how old something is if carbon-14 is mixed with something else ?
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in general , though , an atom 's atomic mass will be very close to its mass number , but will have some deviation in the decimal places . since an element ’ s isotopes have different atomic masses , scientists may also determine the relative atomic mass—sometimes called the atomic weight—for an element . the relative a...
in the second paragraph where you say that an element decays by releasing sub-atomic particles- what subatomic particles are released and how are they released ?
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but what exactly does it mean for something to be radioactive ? radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process .
what happens if an atom is charge-neutral ?
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when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as carbon-14 decays gradually to nitrogen-14 $ ^2 $ . after a half-life of approximately 5,730 years , half of the carbon-14 that was initially present will have been co...
seeing as to that the half life of carbon14 is an estimated 5730 years , does that mean that in an additional 5,730 years ( the total being 11,460 years ) the element will change or convert , completely , to nitrogen14 ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
is it possible for carbon 12 to become carbon 14 ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
how are isotopes and the atomic mass number of an element similar ?
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if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of protons , or atomic number , from the mass number . a property closely related to an atom ’ s mass number is its atomic mass . the atomic mass of a single atom is simply its total mass and is typically expressed in atomic mas...
so what exactly is the difference between atomic mass an an atom 's mass number ?
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atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what atom we are looking at ( e.g. , all atoms with six protons are carbon atoms ) ; the number of protons in an atom is called the atomic number . in cont...
how are carbon atoms changing from atom to atom ?
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these forms of carbon are found in the atmosphere in relatively constant proportions , with carbon-12 as the major form at about 99 % , carbon-13 as a minor form at about 1 % , and carbon-14 present only in tiny amounts $ ^1 $ . as plants pull carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars , the relative amount of carbon-1...
i have a few questions , but i 'll start with just one : on the third paragraph of the subtitle isotopes and radioactive decay , in the end it says : as plants pull carbon dioxide from the air to make sugars , the relative amount of carbon-14 in their tissues will be equal to the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmos...
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
do you have anything on atomic data calculations ?
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forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how many neutrons an atom has , you can simply subtract the number of p...
in the 4th paragraph it states that proton + neutron = mass number , where is the electron ?
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other elements have isotopes with different half lives , and can thus be used to measure age on different timescales . for example , potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion years , and uranium-235 has a half-life of about 700 million years and has been used to measure the age of moon rocks $ ^2 $ .
how do we know what the expected concentration of a given isotope would have been on the earth 50,000 or 1 million or 1 billion years ago ?
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it also shows up in popular culture : many superheroes ’ origin stories involve radiation exposure , for instance—or , in the case of spider-man , a bite from a radioactive spider . but what exactly does it mean for something to be radioactive ? radioactivity is actually a property of an atom .
would n't changing climatic and geological conditions mean that concentrations would fluctuate over time ?
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some isotopes are stable , but others can emit , or kick out , subatomic particles to reach a more stable , lower-energy , configuration . such isotopes are called radioisotopes , and the process in which they release particles and energy is known as decay . radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons...
what happens to the atoms when they decay ?
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radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive and nonradioactive versions that differ in the number of neutrons...
so do the atoms stop being radioactive and calm down ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
so , half of the carbon-14 in the atmosphere now will decay to nitrogen-14 in 5,730 years ?
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radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay to a different , relatively stable product . the ratio of the original isotope to its decay product and to stable isotopes changes in a predictable way ; this predictability allo...
how do scientists know the abundance of every isotope on earth ?
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but what exactly does it mean for something to be radioactive ? radioactivity is actually a property of an atom . radioactive atoms have unstable nuclei , and they will eventually release subatomic particles to become more stable , giving off energy—radiation—in the process . often , elements come in both radioactive a...
since the subatomic particles make up the atom , how do the subatomic particles become existent ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
what 's the difference between the definitions of atomic mass and atomic mass number ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
could carbon 14 be harnessed as an nuclear weapon , since it is an unstable isotope ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
what makes carbon 12 a stable isotope and carbon 14 an unstable isotope ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
do all things have a atomic number ?
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these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this...
how do we determine the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere at the time of fossil 's death to be able to compare it with what 's left ?
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these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this...
do we just assume that the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere back then was the same as it is now ?
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radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay...
does radioactive decay occur in all living things ?
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these different versions of elements are called isotopes , and small quantities of radioactive isotopes often occur in nature . for instance , a small amount of carbon exists in the atmosphere as radioactive carbon-14 , and the amount of carbon-14 found in fossils allows paleontologists to determine their age . in this...
do palentologists have to take a part of a fossil in order to determine the age of said fossil ?
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extraterrestrial objects , like asteroids or meteors , might have very different isotope abundances . isotopes and radioactive decay as mentioned above , isotopes are different forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons . many elements—such as carbon , potassium , and ura...
is there a limit on how many isotopes there can be for an element ?
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extraterrestrial objects , like asteroids or meteors , might have very different isotope abundances . isotopes and radioactive decay as mentioned above , isotopes are different forms of an element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons . many elements—such as carbon , potassium , and ura...
could n't there technically be an infinite amount of isotopes with infinite amounts of neutrons in the nucleus ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
do living things have carbon 12 or carbon 14 ?
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radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay...
and can it decay inside the organism while it lives ?
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for example , carbon is normally present in the atmosphere in the form of gases like carbon dioxide , and it exists in three isotopic forms : carbon-12 and carbon-13 , which are stable , and carbon-14 , which is radioactive . these forms of carbon are found in the atmosphere in relatively constant proportions , with ca...
so you are telling me that isotopes is that .01 in the 1.01 carbon ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
is nitrogen 14 what a fossil is made up of ?
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in general , though , an atom 's atomic mass will be very close to its mass number , but will have some deviation in the decimal places . since an element ’ s isotopes have different atomic masses , scientists may also determine the relative atomic mass—sometimes called the atomic weight—for an element . the relative a...
how do u know if you have created a man-made element , or an element such as dubnium ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
does anyone know how to read the diagram above of carbon 14 ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
why we do we use relative atomic mass instead of counting number of electrons , protons and neutron then calculating mass of these particles ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
since radioactive decay is the process of 'kicking out ' protons , should n't carbon-14 decay to boron-14 ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
what is an atomic number ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
if a stable atom of carbon has an atomic number of 6 , what will its electron configuration look like ?
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radioactive decay can cause a change in the number of protons in the nucleus ; when this happens , the identity of the atom changes ( e.g. , carbon-14 decaying to nitrogen-14 ) . radioactive decay is a random but exponential process , and an isotope ’ s half-life is the period over which half of the material will decay...
how does a graph indicate radioactive decay ?
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in contrast , the number of neutrons for a given element can vary . forms of the same atom that differ only in their number of neutrons are called isotopes . together , the number of protons and the number of neutrons determine an element ’ s mass number : mass number = protons + neutrons . if you want to calculate how...
in other words , how does the number of neutrons affect the stability of the atom at all ?
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wiped out from this universe ?
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as animals eat the plants , or eat other animals that ate plants , the concentrations of carbon-14 in their bodies will also match the atmospheric concentration . when an organism dies , it stops taking in carbon-14 , so the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in its remains , such as fossilized bones , will decline as car...
explain why carbon -14 is described as neutron - rich ?
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can someone explain strontium dating to me ?
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on the basis of this fraction , the age of the material can be calculated with accuracy if it is not much older than about 50,000 years . other elements have isotopes with different half lives , and can thus be used to measure age on different timescales . for example , potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.25 billion year...
how do we know any of this knowledge is correct for all we know their could be a totally different name for it and besides you can , t just name something after your self ?
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carbon-12 contains six protons , six neutrons , and six electrons ; therefore , it has a mass number of 12 ( six protons plus six neutrons ) . carbon-14 contains six protons , eight neutrons , and six electrons ; its mass number is 14 ( six protons plus eight neutrons ) . these two alternate forms of carbon are isotope...
how many neutrons does the most common isotope of hydrogen have ?
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in this article , we ’ ll look in more detail at the subatomic particles that different atoms contain as well as what makes an isotope radioactive . atomic number , atomic mass , and relative atomic mass atoms of each element contain a characteristic number of protons . in fact , the number of protons determines what a...
what is the atomic number to hydrogen ?
overview from the 1820s to the 1840s , germans and irish were the two largest groups of immigrants to the united states . the germans and irish were frequently subjected to anti-foreign prejudice and discrimination . ultimately , the germans and irish assimilated into us culture and society and became two of the most s...
in the 1820s , nearly 60,000 irish immigrated to the united states . in the 1830s , the number grew to 235,000 , and in the 1840s—due to a potato famine in ireland—the number of immigrants skyrocketed to 845,000. $ ^2 $ the great irish famine , as it became known , resulted from a five-year blight that turned potato cr...
how many people lived in ireland during the potato famine ?