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Year 10 or 11 Radioactivity Test
Nuclei and radioactivity
Nuclei and
radioactivity
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Unless told otherwise, give your
answers to two or three significant
figures.
Two nuclei are isotopes if they have
different numbers of protons
despite belonging to the same
chemical element
the same charge but different
mass
the same mass but different
charge
the same number of neutrons but
different numbers of protons
How many neutrons are there in a
109
49 In nucleus?
Value
Radon-210 decays by alpha decay
to polonium. What is the value of x
in the equation?
210
86 Rn → x84 Po + 42 α
Value
Platinum-200 decays by beta decay
to gold. What is the value of x in
the equation?
200
78 Pt → 200
x Au + 0
−1 β
Value
Americium-241, as used in smoke
alarms, decays by alpha decay to
neptunium. What is the value of x
in the equation?
241
95 Am → 237
x Np + 4
2α
Value
A detector surrounding a
radioactive sample counts 846 beta
particles in 30.0 s. That day, the
background count is measured as
20 every 30.0 s. What is the
background corrected activity? You
must give your answer to three
significant figures.
Value
Units
Americium-241, the radioactive
material in a smoke detector, has a
half life of 430 years. If a new
smoke alarm has an activity of
3200 Bq, what would the activity be
1290 years later?
Value
Units
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