Sentences with phrase «beta radiation it emits»
«The older an organism's remains are, the less beta radiation it emits because its C - 14 is steadily dwindling at a predictable rate.»
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Wu was the first to verify — and later refine — Enrico Fermi's theory of radioactive beta - decay, which describes how some unstable atoms emit radiation when transforming into more stable atoms.
Soon thereafter, Ernest Rutherford and Paul Villard identified three different kinds of radiation, dubbed alpha, beta, and gamma rays, emitted by radioactive compounds.
The back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, often contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and may contain actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium - 234, neptunium - 237, plutonium - 238 and americium - 241, and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as Cf.
DU also emits dangerous beta radiation.
Six years after the discovery of radioactivity (1896) by Henri Becquerel of France, the New Zealand - born British physicist Ernest Rutherford found that three different kinds of radiation are emitted in the decay of radioactive substances; these he called alpha, beta, and gamma rays in sequence of their ability to penetrate matter.
When atoms decay, they emit three types of radiation, alpha, beta and gamma.