Question by Word N: Can you help me identify weather the below equations are alpha decay, beta decay or fusion?
a. Thorium-234 Proactinium-234 + -1 degrees e…… is ?
b.Hydrogen+Hyrogen Helium……. is what?
c. Uranium-238 Thorium-234+ Helium-4……….is?
Thanx a mill!
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Answer by YATAAA !
right – im not gonna bother giving you the answer BUT
no infact wait- B. is fusion. how i know? because you look at the mass number- of the 2 hydrogens and they add together to give the mass number of helium
fusion reactions are easy- its two light nuclei- the hydrogen which fuse together to give a heavy nuclei thats hydrogen- that is a classic example.
right during beta decay- the product always has an atomic number that is ONE more than the atomic number of the reactant.
during alpha decay- the mass number increases by 4 and the atomic number by 2- and a helium (which is an alpha particle) always gets ejected from the nucleus
so C. is alpha decay- due to the helium and A is beta decay
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