Induced radioactivity, also called artificial radioactivity or man-made radioactivity, is the process of using radiation to make a previously stable material...
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with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after her parents, to win...
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Operation Crossroads (section Induced radioactivity)
"the water near a recent surface explosion will be a witch's brew" of radioactivity. When the scientists pointed out that the tests might demonstrate ship...
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Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were the second married couple, after his parent-in-laws,...
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Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements...
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Radioactive decay (redirect from Radioactivity)
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable...
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Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials, and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons,...
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu (section Work on radioactivity)
Prize. Mărăcineanu believed that Joliot-Curie had taken her work on Induced radioactivity to receive the prize. "I have great esteem for the work that [Ștefania...
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Jonathan; Glisson, Cal (November 2014), "Potential Hazard Due to Induced Radioactivity Secondary to Radiotherapy: The Report of Task Group 136 of the American...
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Diamond battery (category Radioactivity)
graphite blocks are removed during station decommissioning, their induced radioactivity qualifies them as low-level waste requiring safe disposal. Researchers...
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materials with neutrons led Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie to discover induced radioactivity in 1934, which allowed the creation of radium-like elements. Further...
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disapproves of that relationship because of their joint research into induced radioactivity, later asking Irene not to take part in Frédéric's future work on...
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won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity. His sister, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, is a noted nuclear physicist...
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their 'disintegration' experiments, and to report artificially induced radioactivity. These experiments provided verification of theories about atomic...
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facto radioactive, even if no contamination or neutron irradiation induced radioactivity is detectable. Nuclear power has at least three waste streams that...
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accomplished economically with ion-exchange resins. Beta decay Induced radioactivity List of particles Neutron emission Radioactive decay Rays: α — β...
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Glisson C, Islam MK, et al. (November 2014). "Potential hazard due to induced radioactivity secondary to radiotherapy: the report of task group 136 of the American...
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physics. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity. On October 5, 1966, Fermi 1, a prototype fast breeder reactor,...
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won a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity. Her brother Pierre Joliot is a noted biophysicist who has made...
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Discovery of nuclear fission (category Radioactivity)
carbon, without inducing any radioactivity. When they got to aluminium and then fluorine, they had their first successes. Induced radioactivity was ultimately...
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Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity....
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Nuclear fission (redirect from Electromagnetic induced fission)
radiation after the nucleus captures a neutron, studied sixty elements, inducing radioactivity in forty. In the process, they discovered the ability of hydrogen...
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carbon-14 and short-lived argon-41. The elements most important for induced radioactivity for sea water are sodium-24, chlorine, magnesium, and bromine. For...
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published the fundamental theory of beta decay. The work on neutron-induced radioactivity involved a degree of cooperation unusual at the time, and the later...
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the radioactivity release and decay from the Chernobyl disaster with various other events which involved a release of uncontrolled radioactivity. Natural...
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Ionizing radiation (category Radioactivity)
energetic gamma (> ~20 MeV) can cause nuclear transmutation and induced radioactivity. The relevant mechanisms are neutron activation, alpha absorption...
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Forensic Insight into Carl Auer von Welsbach's 1910 Observation of Induced Radioactivity: Theoretical, Experimental and Historical Approaches". Interdisciplinary...
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only particle energies that are incapable of causing significant induced radioactivity are used for food irradiation. In the United States this limit is...
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Detractors of food irradiation have concerns about the health hazards of induced radioactivity.[citation needed] A report for the industry advocacy group American...
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activation, though other reactions are also possibilities; this induced radioactivity can be dispersed in hot particles. Cold War nuclear tests included...
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