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What Willhelm Roentgen has discovered?
gamma rays
alpha radiation
X-ray
polanium and radium
Which hand was the first x-ray taken?
Left
Right
What year was it when Wilhelm was awarded the first physics Nobel Prize?
1895
1896
1901
1903
Which of the scientists found that uranium produced rays that can blacken a photographic plate even in the dark?
Willhelm Roentgen
Marie Curie
Henri Becquerel
Isaac Newton
What year did Henri Becquerel earn the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radioactivity?
1895
1896
1897
1903
What compounds did Henri Becquerel work with to discover radiation?
Cobalt
Radium
Uranium
Polonium
What is Marie Curie famous for?
Discovery of X-ray
Discovery of gamma radiation
Discovery of radium and polonium
Discovery of alpha particle
Marie Curie died of pernicious anaemia in 1967, a condition related to ___________ ?
Prolonged exposure to alpha particles
Prolonged exposure to X-ray
Prolonged exposure to gamma rays
Prolonged exposure to radium
Who is the only woman who received two Nobel Prizes?
Mother Teresa
Bertha von Suttner
Selma Lagerlöf
Marie Curie
What is radioactivity?
The positively charged central core of an atom.
When a change occurs in the nucleus to make it more stable.
An opposing force caused by the interaction between two surfaces.
When a nucleus decays and it emits some particles/waves from the nucleus.
Radioactivity is spontaneous and random.
True
False
How many types of nuclear radioactivity are there?
1
2
3
4
Radioactivity is a random and spontaneous decay process of an unstable nucleus by emitting radioactive radiation. Radioactive radiation consists of all of the following radiation except :
delta ray
Gamma ray
alpha particles
beta particles
What is units of radioactivity?
Cu & Bq
Ci
Bq
Ci & Bq
1 becquerel (Bq) is equal to?
1/2 decay/s
1 decay/s
2 decay/s
3 decay/s
Half life is the time taken for the number of undecayed nuclei to be reduced to _______ of its original number (value).
few
quarter
half
all
After the third half-life, how much of the sample is left?
1/2
1/4
1/8
1/16
How much time has passed after 3 half lives?
29 years
58 years
87 years
116 years
What is the half life of the material in this diagram?
10 hours
15 hours
20 hours
25 hours
What's the half life of this substance?
1 day
2 days
3 days
4 days
If a radioactive substance had a half life of 5 days, what fraction would be left after 20 days?
1/2
1/4
1/8
1/16
Iodin-131 decays with half-life is 8 days to become Xenon-131. Calculate the mass of Iodin-131 after 24 days with a mass of 60g
7.5 g
8.5 g
12.5 g
15.5 g
If you begin with 100 grams of a radioactive material, how much do you have after 2 half-lives?
25 grams
50 grams
98 grams
100 g
Barium-122 has a half-life of 2 minutes. A fresh sample weighing 80 g was obtained. If it takes 10 minutes to set up an experiment using barium-122, how much barium-122 will be left when the experiment begins?
0.25 g
2.5 g
25 g
80 g
The half-life of strontium-90 is 25 years. How much strontium-90 will remain after 100 years if the initial amount is 4.0 g?
0.15 g
0.25 g
1 g
2 g
What is the half-life of iodine-131?
8 days
16 days
24 days
32 days
If the half life of a radioactive element is 100 years, how long would it take for the radioactivity to reduce by one half?
50 years
100 years
200 years
300 years
If the half-life of uranium-232 is 70 years, how many half-lives will it take for 10 g of it to be reduced to 1.25 g?
1 half-life
2 half-lives
3 half-lives
4 half-lives
Which of the scientist introduced a theory on the structure of atom?
Marie Curie
Abraham Lincoln
John Dalton
Donald Trump
What are 3 subatomic particles in the structure of an atom?
Proton, Nucleus, Neuron
Proton, Neutron, Ion
Proton, Electron, Neuron
Proton, Electron, Neutron
A particle with a positive charge determines the element :
Proton
Electron
Neutron
A particle with a negative charge determines the element :
Proton
Electron
Neutron
When an atom loses or gains electron, the atom becomes a ___________ particle.
neutral
positive
negative
charged
What do we call the tiny core at the center of an atom?
Electron
Proton
Neutron
Nucleus
Neutral particle that is not charged is known as :
Nucleus
Proton
Neutron
Electron
According to Dalton's Atomic Theory, an atom is the smallest particle and cannot be further ______________.
charged
decay
divided
positive
Which of the following atom is neutral?
P
Q
R
S
Which two subatomic particles are found in the NUCLEUS of at atom?
protons & neutrons
neutrons & electrons
protons & electrons
protons
What type of subatomic particles are found in the cloud?
neutrons
protons
electrons
nucleus
If an atom has :
Number of protons : 29
Number of electrons : 27
What is the charge of this atom?
neutral
positive
negative
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