Sentences with phrase «emit alpha particles»

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.
When radon is in the air close to a material such as the plastic used in eyeglass lenses (allyl - diglycol - carbonate, or CR - 39) it decays, emitting an alpha particle.
They learn more if instead it emits an alpha particle (two protons and two neutrons) to produce a «daughter nucleus» and then that emits another alpha and so on.
If radon emits an alpha particle, it becomes the rather toxic polonium...

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The TRUs are especially dangerous because they emit the highly carcinogenic alpha particles.
The peptide is labelled with the alpha - emitting radionuclide 225Actinium that generates four high - energy alpha particles during its decay.
Also emitted were alpha and beta particles, plasma, and dozens of transmuted chemical elements.
Radon is one link in the decay process which emits radioactive radiation in the form of an alpha particle.
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