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'''Instrumentation for radioactivity''' is of many types, due to different applications (e.g., analysis vs. safe ...es ion pairs in the detector. Ionization detectors are common in measuring radioactivity, but smoke detectors also make use of ionization.

...chart] from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the sources of ocean radioactivity.<br>

...and subsequent reactor fire, approximately 14 EBq (10¹⁸ Bq) of radioactivity was released into the environment through the continuous nine-day burning o ...(200,000) all throughout the [[Soviet Union]] to assist in cleaning up the radioactivity at the site, which took course over two years, during 1986 and 1987. They

*''Radioactive decay:'' [[Radon]] gas is released into the atmosphere by [[radioactivity|radioactive decay]] in the [[Earth]]'s crust.

“Holtec Umax lids at San Onofre - Radioactivity at air vent (e.g., carbon-14) was 324 CPMs (0.97 microsieverts/hour)”<br> ...ap steel from gas plants may be recycled if it has less than 500,000 Bq/kg radioactivity. This level however is one thousand times higher than the clearance level f

...disadvantage that they can not be turned off. Also it is difficult using [[radioactivity]] to create a small and compact source which offers the photon flux which i

...ap steel from gas plants may be recycled if it has less than 500,000 Bq/kg radioactivity. This level however is one thousand times higher than the clearance level f

...on the surrounding tissues. He dedicated most of his life to the study of radioactivity.

...ysis is necessary, but capabilities are limited. The [[instrumentation for radioactivity]] needed are:

...inues even after his [[death]]. Though the original Rimmer is reduced to [[radioactivity|radioactive]] dust, Holly opts to create a sophisticated hologram simulatio

...ring cadmium is composed of eight [[isotope]]s. For two of them, natural [[radioactivity]] has been observed, and another three are predicted to be [[radioactive]]

...t limited to, [[desertification]], [[deforestation]], [[extinction]] and [[radioactivity]]. Some of the major causes of such degradation include: [[Global warming|

...both, and provided the first nuclear model of the atom. He discerned that radioactivity is the product of subatomic change and thereby ended the chapter on Aristot

{{Image|Radioactive waste decay.png|right|350px|Fig.4 Radioactivity over time of each major nuclide in spent fuel from a nuclear reactor. The d ...book.com Why Nuclear Power has been a Flop].</ref> Even if only looking at radioactivity released to the environment,<ref>[https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-w

...system, which is fitted with filters and equipment to study the release of radioactivity from the damaged fuel. Already the release of radioisotopes from fuel under ...ire, the fire and explosion at Chernobyl is one of the largest releases of radioactivity into the environment which has occurred and hence deserves special attentio

...oodP />. Other methods include: [[chemical staining]], [[fluorescence]], [[radioactivity]], [[immunoelectrophoretic techniques]] and [[on-column/end-column detectio

...of radiation on matter; this is very different to [[radiochemistry]] as no radioactivity needs to be present in the material which is being chemically changed by th

...f time.<ref> E. Rutherford’s work was reported in numerous publications: ''Radioactivity'' 1904, Cambridge University Press 2nd Edition 1905, (pp580); ''Radioactive

...[[uranium 238]], which is the vast bulk of the material and has a very low radioactivity, ...eutrons with fast reactor coolant is the (n,gamma) reaction, which induces radioactivity in the coolant. Sodium-24 ({{chem|24|Na}}) is created in the reactor loop o

'''Leakage of Radioactivity''' The molten salt circulates at low pressure, and any leakage from the rea

** Radioactivity, although that's mostly nuclear physics

...pollution plume by a burst of rain often forms so called ''hot spots'' of radioactivity on the underlying surface.

...pollution plume by a burst of rain often forms so called ''hot spots'' of radioactivity on the underlying surface.

[[Radiometric Dating]] measures the steady decay of [[radioactivity|radioactive elements]] in an object to determine its age. It is used to cal

...mical elements. Many of the chemical elements have non-stable, so-called [[Radioactivity|radioactive]] isotopes, whose atomic nuclei emit [[matter]] and [[energy]].

| [[Radioactivity]] (decays per unit time)

...OE website page)</ref> The annual radiation dose (from naturally occurring radioactivity in coal) received by persons living within 80 km of a coal-fired power plan

...or long-term, but the nature of the physical resource (e.g., the declining radioactivity of a source) may affect its properties. It may be possible to compensate fo

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...ie Curie|Maria Skłodowska-Curie]]: in Physics 1903, for the discovery of [[radioactivity]]; and in Chemistry 1911, for the isolation of [[radium|pure radium]]

The first 94 elements occur naturally on [[Earth]], although the [[radioactivity|radioactive]] elements [[technetium]], ''Z''=43, [[promethium]] ''Z''=61, [

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...411 [[MeV]] of [[Gamma ray|gamma radiation]], significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's [[Nuclear fallout|fallout]] for several days. Such a weapon

== Use of radioactivity in biology ==

...ntists continued during the Third Republic. [[Henri Becquerel]] discovered radioactivity in uranium salts and thus ushered in the atomic age. [[Pierre Curie|Pierre]