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- 1. What element is used in nuclear power plants as fuel?
- 6. What type of radioactive decay will emit particles with no overall charge?
- 7. The Milky Way is the ________ that the Sun is in.
- 8. What happens when the energy from splitting an atom is released all at once?
- 10. The Sun is a ______ dwarf star.
- 11. What disease can be caused by the radiation from isotopes?
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- 2. What type of radioactive decay is caused when there are too many protons in the nucleus?
- 3. What type of isotopes are termed radioactive isotopes?
- 4. What type of radioactive decay is caused when there are too many neutrons in the nucleus?
- 5. nuclear fusion takes place inside _______.
- 8. What scientist came up with the formula E = mc2?
- 9. Isotopes of the same element have a different number of what atomic particles?