Nuclear Chemistry

Review Packet

Objectives:

• Identify the products of nuclear transformation processes
• Interconvert between the half-life of a nuclide and the amount of that nuclide remaining after a specific amount of time
• Be familiar with critical mass, fusion/fission, mass defect, binding energy, nucleon, strong nuclear force, differences in penetrating power, and the ionizing ability of alpha, beta, and gamma radiation
• Use a graph to predict the type of decay that will occur
• History of radioactivity
• Actual discovery
• Rutherford discovers different types of radiation

Chapter 21

Equations and Constants (on yellow sheet)

None

Notes

I. History

A. Curie’s

B. Rutherford

II. Types of Radioactive Emissions

A. Alpha

B. Beta

C. Positron

D. Electron Capture

E. Gamma Radiation

III. Radioactive Decay

A. Stable Configurations

1. Magic numbers

2. Nuclei with even number of protons AND neutrons

B. Band of Stability

IV. Half-Life

A. Solving Half-Life Problems

B. Radioactive Isotope Dating

C. Transuranium Elements

V. Nuclear Reactions

A. Energy Relationships

B. Binding energy

C. Nuclear Fission

D. Nuclear fusion