Nuclear Chemistry Board Game

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Unit 3 Nuclear Chemistry Board Race Review
Radioactive Decay Decay Series Half-Life Grab Bag O Fun Reactors
1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5
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Name that particle
I can change a neutron into a proton I have a
negative charge My symbol is b
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What type of decay is being shown?
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What is the change in atomic mass when an atom
emits a gamma particle?
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Lab coats and goggles would provide
shielding from what type of radiation?
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What type of decay is shown below?
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What is the product of the alpha decay of Rn-220?
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What particle is released when Ga-75 decays to
Ge-75?
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What other product occurs when Ac-222 releases
an alpha particle?
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Write the equation that shows the beta decay of
uranium-237
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What is the ending particle in the following
decay series?
Cf-251 undergoes alpha decay The daughter under
goes alpha decay The daughter under goes beta
decay The daughter under goes alpha decay
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Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days. How many
grams of I-131 in a 4.0-g sample remain after 24
days?
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Phosphorus-32 has a half-life of 14 days. How
long will it take for the P-32 sample to decay to
one-fourth of its original level?
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An 80-mg sample of technetium-99 is used for a
diagnostic test. If Tc-99 has a half-life of 6.0
hr, how much of the Tc-99 sample remains
radioactive after 24 hours?
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Polonium-218 has a half-life of 3.0 minutes. How
long will it take a sample to decay to
one-eighth its original mass?
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The half-life of radium-226 is 1,600 years. How
many milligrams of radium-226 remain after 8,000
years if the parent sample is 5.000 mg?
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List the three subatomic particles and list their
masses in amu.
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In each of the following sets of
mystery elements, determine which species are
isotopes.
a. 8035X, 8235X, 8136Xb. 199X, 1910X,
179X, 208Xc. 2311X, 2411X, 2511Xd.
7031X, 7032X, 7033X, 7034X
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Determine the isotopic symbol for the following
An isotope of chlorine in which A 37
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What type of decay is occurring in each of the
steps below?
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If only 25 of the carbon-14 remains, how old is
the material containing the carbon-14?
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What is the roll of the control rods in a nuclear
fission reactor?
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• What is required for a nuclear reaction to run
• at critical mass?
• Very high temperatures
• A corrosive environment
• A particle to collide with a nucleus
• Spontaneous nuclear decay
• Gamma emission

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What drives the turbine in a nuclear reactor?