P4 Radioactivity

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What is the name of the equipment used to measure radioactivity?
Geiger Counter
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Radioactivity is the decay of which part of the atom?
Nucleus
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Is radioactive decay a random or ordered process?
random
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What is the name of the graph that shows the how radioactivity reduces over time?
Halflife graph
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The radioactivity of an isotope took 4 hours to decrease from 100Bq to 25Bq. What is its half-life?
two hours
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What is an alpha particle
helium nucleus
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What type of radioactivity is a fast moving electron?
beta
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What type of radioactivite particle consists of two protons and two neutrons?
alpha
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What is the name for an element with a different number of neutrons?
isotope
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Which type of radioactivity is the more penetrating
gamma
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With alpha decay, the mass number goes down by how many?
four
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Name a source of background radiation
rocks
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Gamma radiation is stopped by a thick sheet of... what?
lead
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Radioactivity is the decay of which part of the atom?

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Nucleus

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Is radioactive decay a random or ordered process?

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What is the name of the graph that shows the how radioactivity reduces over time?

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Card 5

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The radioactivity of an isotope took 4 hours to decrease from 100Bq to 25Bq. What is its half-life?

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