but reactions leading to the iron/nickel region are more probable as they release more energy per baryon. Nickel-63 has two main uses: Detection of explosives...
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Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard...
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Nickel carbonyl (IUPAC name: tetracarbonylnickel) is a nickel(0) organometallic compound with the formula Ni(CO)4. This colorless liquid is the principal...
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its energy from the isotope nickel-63, held in a module the size of a very small coin. As it is consumed, the nickel-63 decays into stable, non-radioactive...
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energy from a sheet of nickel-63 located in a module the size of a very small coin. The isotope decays into stable, non-radioactive Cu-63, which pose no additional...
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Common beta emitters (section Nickel)
of sulfur-32 or from phosphorus-31 by neutron capture. Nickel-63 is a radioisotope of nickel that can be used as an energy source in Radioisotope Piezoelectric...
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above a base of the radioactive isotope nickel-63. All of the radiation emitted as the millicurie-level nickel-63 thin film decays is in the form of beta...
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Nickel-62 is an isotope of nickel having 28 protons and 34 neutrons. It is a stable isotope, with the highest binding energy per nucleon of any known...
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several radioactive isotopes, such as strontium-90, cesium-137, cobalt-60, nickel-63 and tritium, a rarely-occurring isotope of hydrogen, has flowed into groundwater...
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by doping of the electrodes with radioactive isotopes caesium 137 or nickel 63, and by orienting the spark gaps so that ultraviolet light from a firing...
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uses 14C as its source. There are, however, some prototypes that use nickel-63 (63Ni) as their source with diamond non-electrolytes/semiconductors for...
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bismuth-207 32.9 1.04 titanium-44 63 2.0 uranium-232 68.9 2.17 plutonium-238 87.7 2.77 samarium-151 96.6 3.05 nickel-63 100.1 3.16 polonium-209 125.2 3...
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devices based on Strontium-90 radioisotope, which is much cheaper than Nickel-63 currently used in diamond nuclear batteries. Such devices could be useful...
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be added into the tube, either as a separate piece of material (e.g. nickel-63 in krytrons) or as addition to the alloy of the electrodes (e.g. thorium)...
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plutonium-238, curium-242, curium-244 and strontium-90 have been used. Tritium, nickel-63, promethium-147, and technetium-99 have been tested. There are two main...
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Isotope & Fuel Cycle Technology Division investigating industrial uses of nickel-63 and selenium-75. Clarice Phelps was raised in the American state of Tennessee...
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of radioactive material (usually less than 5 microcuries (180 kBq) of nickel-63), which emits beta particles (high-speed electrons) to make ionization...
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No limit No limit Cobalt-60 (60Co) 700 No limit No limit Nickel-63 (63Ni) 3.5 70 700 Ni-63 in activated metal 35 700 7000 Strontium-90 (90Sr) 0.04 150...
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The Liberty Head nickel, sometimes referred to as the V nickel because of its reverse (or tails) design, is an American five-cent piece. It was struck...
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electron capture detectors for gas chromatography. The more widely used nickel-63 sources provide electrons from beta decay. Iron-55 is most effectively...
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Mond process (redirect from Carbonyl nickel)
1039/CT8905700749. "The Extraction of Nickel from its Ores by the Mond Process". Nature. 59 (1516): 63–64. 1898. Bibcode:1898Natur..59...63.. doi:10.1038/059063a0....
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community had a population of 2 in 2005. Nickel Creek is located at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62 and 180, 63 mi (101 km) north of Van Horn and 5 mi...
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Nickel hydrazine nitrate (NHN), (chemical formula: [Ni(N2H4)3](NO3)2 is an energetic material having explosive properties in between that of primary explosive...
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sample explosives which is accomplished by a radioactive source such as nickel-63 or americium-241. This technology is found in most commercially available...
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The Shield nickel was the first United States five-cent piece to be made out of copper-nickel, the same alloy of which American nickels are struck today...
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LME Nickel stands for a group of spot, forward, and Futures contracts, trading on the London Metal Exchange (LME), for delivery of primary Nickel that...
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underlying metal (usually nickel) to the solder. Impurities in the nickel layer can prevent the solder from bonding to it. Electroless nickel plating contains...
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effective, since at that time the main source of radioactivity will become nickel-63 with a half-life of 100.1 years. The spent uranium and the uranium left...
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amount of nickel catalyst was needed for the reaction, around 5 mol %, nickel is not as expensive or as precious a metal as palladium. The nickel catalyzed...
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Lithium-ion battery (redirect from Lithium-nickel-cobalt-aluminum)
cobalt) cost, nickel-oxide based materials benefit from the two-electron redox chemistry of Ni: in layered oxides comprising nickel (such as nickel-cobalt-manganese...
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