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How is Radiation measured?
By the number of nuclear decays emitted per second
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What is alpha radiation?
Radiation with a helium nucleaus
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Why is static electricity a problem for flour mills?
Flour mills have a high concentration of fine particles so a single spark could lead to an explosion.
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Why can Static Electricity become a nuisance?
It makes clothes stick to your skin, and can cause dust particles to stick to insulating materials like TV screens
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What colour is the neutral wire in a plug socket?
Blue
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How do body scans involving ultrasound waves work?
Ultrasound waves are reflected at boundaries. The time taken for these to be detected can be used to calculate the depth.
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What is resistance?
The measure of how hard it is to get a current throught a component at a particular voltage
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What do Anti-Static spray do?
prevent the transfer of charge
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What is a circuit?
A complete loop that allows electric current to flow
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How do you discharge static electricity?
Earth it
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What happens when an alpha particle is emitted from a nucleus?
The atomic number decreases by 2 and the atomic mass decreases by 4
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What are some uses of ultrasound?
Body Scans and breaking down kidney stones
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Name 3 uses of static electricity...
Defibrillators, smoke detectors and spray painting
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How do ultrasound waves break down kidney stones?
They make them vibrate, disperse and break up so they're easier to pass through urine
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How do Defibrillators work?
The charge is discharged through the patient making the hearts contract
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What is half-life?
The time taken for the number of nuclei in the sample to half
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What are tracers used for?
Finding, leaks/blockages/routes of pipes and for searching through rubbish
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What happens when a beta particle is emitted from the nucleus?
Atomic Mass is the same, Atomic Number increases by 1
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What is Beta radiation?
A fast moving electron
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What do radioactive materials give out from their nucleus's?
Nuclear Radiation
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Which wire is brown?
Live Wire
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What is ultrasound?
Sound waves above 20,000 hertz
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What is gamma radiation?
An electromagnetic wave
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What colour is the earth wire?
Green and Yellow
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What is resistance measured in?
Ohms
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In fisson, what does the nucleus split up into?
Barium and Krypton
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What is the energy source for nuclear power stations?
Uranium
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How can we gives rocks a name?
Measure the amount of radioactive uranium and lead inside
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Why must tracers have short half-lives?
So the patient isn't radioactive for long
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Where's the majority of background radiation from?
The soil
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What is the affects the amount of background radiation?
Cosmic rays and rocks in the area
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