1. Nuclear Chemistry
IPC B

2. Wilhelm Roentgen Wilhelm Roentgen Discovered X-rays
Was awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the mysterious rays

3. Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel was a part of the group that made a the early discoveries of radiation.

4. Marie Curie
Marie Curie and her husband made the discovery of radiation.
She was awarded two Nobel Prizes for her work.

5. The Discovery of Radiation
Henri Becquerel (1895) discovered that pitchblend (Uranium ore) would expose film. He called it radioactivity.
Marie and Pierre Curie worked long difficult hours and discovered new elements-Radium and Polonium

6. Nuclear vs. Ordinary Reactions
Ordinary chemical changes (the ones that display our indicators of chemical reactions) only involve electrons.
Nuclear changes involve the nucleus and create new atoms.
Larger atoms are from fusion
Smaller atoms are from fission

7. Radiation
Radioactivity or Radiation is the spontaneous emission of alpha, beta, or gamma rays the disintegration of the nuclei of atoms.

8. Types of Radiation Alpha particles Beta Particles Gamma Rays
A helium atom doesn’t have any electrons; positively charged.
Beta Particles
A very fast moving electron
Negatively charged
Gamma Rays
A form of energy lots of energy that moves in waves
The rays go through a lot of materials.

9. Going for the Block
Alpha particles can be blocked by a piece of paper; however, once inside the body the most immediate damage.
Beta particles can be stopped with a piece of Al foil. They do more damage over a great area of the body.
Gamma rays penetrate most things and do the most damage to DNA.

10. Radiation Protection
Distance
Time
Shielding

11. Nuclear Protective Gear

12. Nuclear Equations-Know your particles and all is easy
Alpha particles -changes the mass number by four and the atomic number by two. It’s a Helium nucleus
Beta Particles -changes the atomic number by one. No change to the mass number.
Neutron -no change to the mass number, but the mass changes by one.
Alpha Particle
Beta Particle
Neutron
These are the main ones !!!!!!

13. The other particles
Proton
Positron

14. Five types of nuclear change
Alpha Decay
Beta Decay
Gamma Decay
Fission (spitting)
Fusion (joining)

15. Nuclear Equations
Both sides of the equation must be equal in both mass number and atomic number!
It’s just very easy algebra!

16. Examples:

17. Word Problem Example
Thorium-225 undergoes alpha decay. Write a balanced equation for the reaction.

18. Fission reaction
Nuclear fission is when nucleus is split into two smaller nuclei.

19. Fusion
Fusion is when two nuclei join to form a larger nucleus. The same reaction occurs in the sun!

20. A Fission Reactor
Cannot explode like a nuclear bomb. Uses a different form of uranium-238
There is actually less pollution that goes into the air.
Nuclear weapons use uranium-235

21. Half-Life
Half life is defined as the time it takes for one half the mass of the radioactive isotope to become stable (non-radioactive)
Substances with short half-lives can cause more health hazards than isotopes with long half-lives (radiation is given off much more slowly.)
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22. Half-Life Terms
The portion that remains radioactive is called the parent
The decayed portion is called the daughter.
The daughter is not usually radioactive, but it can be.

23. Examples
Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 years. How much remains of a 600 gram sample after 17,100 years?
Polonium-210 has a half-life of days. How much remains of a 1000 gram sample after weeks.

24. Calculating half-life
The fraction of the original amount that remains is still radioactive.
The easy way:
Determine the number of half-lives
Divide the mass by 2 until you have divided as many times as you have number of half-lives
The Formula:

25. Carbon Dating
Carbon-14 and Nitrogen-14 are used to date items based on the half-life of carbon-14.
We know it takes 5730 years to decay carbon-14.
The amount present in the atmosphere is constant. So you just measure what’s in the artifact and work backwards.

26. When radiation hits a cell-read only
It may pass through the cell w/o damage.
It may damage the cell, but the cell fixes the damage.
It may damage the cell; the cell reproduces the damaged form.
The cell dies-serious problems occur if too many cells are killed in a certain organ.