Category
page 2Radioactivity

Herta Regina Leng
physicist and educator
neutrinoless double beta decay
nuclear physics process that has not been observed yet
metamictization
Metamictisation (sometimes called metamictization or metamiction) is a natural process resulting in the gradual and ultimately complete destruction of a mineral's crystal structure, leaving the mineral amorphous. The affected material is therefore described as metamict.
radiosensitivity
Radiosensitivity is the relative susceptibility of cells, tissues, organs or organisms to the harmful effect of ionizing radiation.
collective dose
sum of all radiation over a time period
Ternary fission
type of nuclear fission
inverse beta decay
nuclear reaction involving an electron antineutrino scattering off a proton, creating a positron and a neutron
Technetium-99m generator
Colloquially a technetium cow, or moly cow, a device used to extract the short-lived Tc-99m
Uranium in the environment
nuclear drip line
boundary on a table of nuclides demarcating where atomic nuclei decay by emitting protons or neutrons
extinct radionuclide
radionuclide formed by nucleosynthesis before formation of the Solar System
valley of stability
region of the chart of the nuclides in which bound nuclei are possible
environmental radioactivity
radioactive materials in the human environment
Bateman Equation
mathematical model in nuclear physic
Free neutron decay
decay of a neutron when outside a nucleus
six factor formula
formula used to calculate nuclear chain reaction growth rate