Nuclear Crossword
Across
- 2. Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped
- 4. charged atoms
- 8. Decay, the emission of energy in the form of ionizing radiation
- 11. smallest part of an element that retain the properties of that element
- 13. any of the chemical elements that lie beyond uranium in the periodic table
- 17. Decay, nothing to the mass and adds 1 to the number of protons
- 19. Reaction, a series of chemical reactions where the products of the reaction contribute to the reactants of another reaction
- 21. energy that comes from a source and travels through space at the speed of light
- 22. Boy, first atomic weapon
Down
- 1. 2 or more things combining
- 3. Number, number of protons
- 5. release of energy from the decay of the nuclei and other kinds of atoms and isotopes
- 6. Life, amount of time it takes for one half of the radioactive isotopes to decay
- 7. Decay, subtracts 4 to the mass and 2 to the number of protons
- 9. Decay, nothing to the mass and number of protons
- 10. dividing or splitting something into 2 or more parts
- 12. Curie, discovered the elements polonium and radium
- 14. a variation of an element that possesses the same atomic number but a different mass number
- 15. Number, number of protons plus number of neutrons
- 16. Japanese city where the second atomic bomb was dropped
- 18. Electrons, outmost electrons
- 20. Man, implosion type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core