Radioactivity-all the little bits
Across
- 5. What is the ionising power of gamma radiation?
- 8. Number of decays recorded each second by a Geiger-Muller tube
- 10. The smallest part of an element that can exist.
- 11. it cannot be predicted when a given atom will decay, this means that radioactive decay is ….?
- 12. When an object is exposed to radiation
- 14. Which subatomic particle did James Chadwick discover?
- 18. This occurs when an unstable nucleus changes to become more stable and gives out radiation
- 19. If ionisation happens in to cells it may result in __________
- 22. This subatomic particle has a mass of 0 and a charge of -1
- 23. This number is total number of protons and neutrons in an atom
- 24. which type of radiation has the longest
- 25. The time taken for number of radioactive nuclei in a sample to halve.
- 27. this scientist proposed the plum pudding model
Down
- 1. What are the units of activity?
- 2. The unwanted presence of materials containing radioactive atoms
- 3. Contains only one type of atom
- 4. this type of radioactive decay is an electron formed when a neutron decays.
- 6. The ………. number is the number of protons in an atom
- 7. This type of radioactive decay is a particle of two protons and two neutrons
- 9. This subatomic particle has a mass of 1 and a charge of 1
- 13. Rate at which decay occurs
- 15. An atom of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
- 16. This subatomic particle has a mass of 1 and a charge of 0
- 17. Will absorb (stop) alpha radiation?
- 20. ……………particle scattering was experiment by Rutherford that gave ideas about the atom structure.
- 21. electrons are arranged in these
- 26. This type of radioactive decay is an electromagnetic wave