21: Nuclear Chemistry
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Nuclear chemistry addressses with radioactivity, nuclear processes, such as nuclear transmutation, and nuclear properties. It also involves the chemistry of radioactive elements such as the actinides, radium and radon together with the chemistry associated with equipment (such as nuclear reactors) which are designed to perform nuclear processes.
21.1: Radioactivityisotopic symbols, radioisotopes, nuclear equations, types of radioactive decay 21.2: Patterns of Nuclear Stabilitybelt of stability, evens and odds, magic numbers, decay series 21.3: Nuclear Transmutationbalancing reactions, particle accelerators, neutron bombardment, and producing the trans-uranium elements 21.4: Rates of Radioactive Decayfirst order kinetics, converting half-life to a rate constant, dating objects using C-14, other dating techniques 21.5: Detection of RadioactivityGeiger tube, scintillation counter, radiotracer 21.6: Energy Changes in Nuclear Reactionsrelating mass and energy, energy produced from a simple alpha emission, nuclear binding energies 21.7: Nuclear Fission and Fusionfission process, chain reactions, harnessing nuclear fission for electricity, fusion, energy produced in fission and fusion 21.8: Biological Effects of Radiationionizing radiation, dosage amounts, medical uses 21.9: Biological Effects of Radiationdelete this section please