Applications of Radioactivity

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Applications of Radioactivity: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Applications of Radioactivity, Applications of Radioactivity in Medicine, Lead-Uranium Dating Method & Potassium-Argon Dating Method etc.

Important Questions on Applications of Radioactivity

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The half life of a radioactive isotope is three hours. If the initial mass of the isotope were 256 g, the mass of it remaining undecayed after 18 hours would be

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Give some radioisotopes used in the field of agriculture.

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Give atleast two applications of radioisotopes in the field of agriculture.

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What is the use of phosphorus-32 isotope?

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Which radioisotope is used in agriculture?

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Give the applications of radioactivity in agriculture.

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The isotope is used in the treatment of thyroid disorder is:

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Radioactivity is used in industry to measure the _____ of metal or plastic sheet.

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The radioisotopes are used to determine the age of rocks containing _____ isotopes.

(Write element's name only)

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The radioactive isotope used in the treatment of thyroid cancer is 

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STATEMENT-1: Specific activity of the same radioactive substance is same for 10g radioactive substance as well as 50g radioactive substance.

STATEMENT-2: Specific activity of a radioactive substance is its activity per g.

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The overall separation factor necessary to achieve a product containing 99.7% by mass U-235 starting form natural uranium is-

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1 u (amu) is equal to :

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The half life of C-14 is 5600 years. A sample of freshly cut wood from a tree contains 10 mg of C-14. The amount left in the sample after 50000 years is (a-x) mg The value of (a-x) ×100 is

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U23592 nucleus absorbs a neutron and disintegrates into Xe13954 , Sr9438 and x. What will be the product x ?

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How many α - particles will be emitted when 90Th234 changes into 84Po218 ?

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Calculate the age of the ore if     9 2 U 2 3 8  by successive decay changes to 8 2 Pb 2 0 6 , when a sample of uranium ore was analysed it was found that it contains 1g of U238 and 0.1 g of Pb206, considering that all the Pb206 had accumulated due to decay of U238   (Half-life of U238 = 4.5 × 109 yrs).

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Half life period of lead is equal to.

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The number of neutrons accompanying the formation of 54 139 Xe and 38 94 Sr from the adsorption of a slow neutron by 92 235 U followed by nuclear reaction is.

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Emission of α-particle from a radioactive species produces its.