The plethora of unusual
radioactive elements made in the rapid fusion leads to a bright light show from the freshly synthesized matter that lasts a few weeks.
Not exact matches
His chemistry lab is specifically designed to handle
radioactive elements like berkelium,
making it the only university lab in the country equipped to do so.
Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it
makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the
radioactive decay of
elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.
Manchester scientists have revealed how arsenic molecules might be used to «fish out» the most toxic
elements from
radioactive nuclear waste — a breakthrough that could
make the decommissioning industry even safer and more effective.
Previous studies have shown that fracking fluids contain high levels of salts, barium and
radioactive elements, in addition to human -
made chemicals added in the process of hydraulic fracturing.
If the original asteroids were bigger than about 20 kilometers across — and there's no reason to think they weren't — decaying
radioactive elements inside them would have
made the rock hotter than that.
One such product linked to these activities, isosaccharinic acid (ISA), causes much concern as it can react with a wide range of radionuclides — unstable and toxic
elements that are formed during the production of nuclear power and
make up the
radioactive component of nuclear waste.
Produced by the decay of
radioactive elements, these particles rarely, if ever, interact with matter,
making them extremely hard to detect and study.
Since heavier
elements were built by radiation processes, they were very
radioactive when first
made.
The supernova
made all
radioactive elements including plutonium, cesium 137, etcetera.
In any case, no - one is suggesting that the planet's core is getting hotter, which would be needed to actually
make our planet warm; to the contrary, the planet will be very slowly cooling as the
radioactive elements in the core providing this heat gradually lose their energy.