Isotope Stability

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• How do you determine isotope stability?
• How can you predict nuclear stability?
• How is nuclear stability related to radioactive decay?
• How is nuclear stability related to the neutron-proton ratio?
• What determines isotope stability?
• What factors determine nuclear stability?
• How do spontaneous nuclear fission processes occur?
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• Why are some isotopes radioactive and others are not?
• How can transmutation occur in a stable isotope?
• How many stable isotopes of He exist?
• How many stable isotopes does oxygen have?
• How many stable isotopes does nitrogen have?
• How many stable isotopes does gold have?
• How many stable isotopes does copper have?
• How can I read a band of stability graph?
• How do isotopes become stable?
• What is the band of stability?
• What is a stable isotope?
• How many isotopes of gold are there?
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• What is radon-222? Is it a potential outdoor or indoor pollutant?
• A 30,000 year old vase was found. What isotope would be best to confirm its age?
• Why are nuclei unstable?
• What is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is produced from the decay of uranium in rock?
• To determine the age of fossils it is possible to analyze the amounts of the isotopes #"^14C# and #"^14N# because over time the #"^14C# - which originated in the atmosphere - breaks down into #"^14N#. What net change occurred for this to happen?
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• What is a radioactive isotope? Why are they radioactive?
• What is responsible for the isotopic distribution of the elements in the Solar System?
• What are two isotopes of uranium? Which can be used to make energy?
• What are unstable atoms also known as?
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• How do you determine the binding energy of lithium-6?
• What is the isotopic distribution of the chromium atom?
• Why Tritium is called radioactive isotope?
• Explain how the neutron/proton ratio is associated with the stability of two nuclei. Why is a certain ratio needed?