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Nuclear Chemistry Worksheet

This document is a nuclear chemistry worksheet that provides exercises for students to practice writing nuclear decay equations and calculations involving half-life. It includes questions asking students to write equations for various alpha and beta decays, define half-life, relate it to a tournament elimination process, complete decay calculations from data in a table, and interpret results of carbon-14 dating and radioactive element identification based on half-life.

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Nuclear Chemistry Worksheet

This document is a nuclear chemistry worksheet that provides exercises for students to practice writing nuclear decay equations and calculations involving half-life. It includes questions asking students to write equations for various alpha and beta decays, define half-life, relate it to a tournament elimination process, complete decay calculations from data in a table, and interpret results of carbon-14 dating and radioactive element identification based on half-life.

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Nuclear Chemistry Worksheet


Using your knowledge of nuclear chemistry, write the equations for the following processes:
1. The alpha decay of radon-198

2. The beta decay of uranium-237

3. The alpha decay of thorium-234

4. The alpha decay of polonium-208

5. The beta decay of helium-6

6. The beta decay of gold-201

Half-Life
1. Define half-life.

2. How is the half-life of a radioisotope similar to a sporting tournament in which the losing
team is eliminated?

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3. Use the data in the table above to complete the following chart.

4. If 1 g of sodium-24 has decayed from a sample that was originally 2 g, how old is the sample?

5. What fraction of chlorine-36 remains undecayed after 200,000 years?

6. As uranium-238 decays, it becomes lead-206. After 3.5 g of uranium-238 decays for 1.125 x 109
years, how many grams of the sample will be lead-206?

7. A scientist has a 2.5 g sample of radium-226. How many grams of the sample will decay in 800
years?

8. An archaeologist finds a piece of old bone that she believes may be 2000 years old. The lab
technician tells her that the carbon-14 in the bone has completed 25 percent of its first half-life.
Does this finding support her belief about the age of the bone? Why or why not?

9. A technician does a test on an unidentified radioactive element and discovers that it has a halflife of 4.5 x 109 years. What element do you think it is, and why?

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