NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY TEST.
  • 1. What is the product when alpha particles bombarded 231-Pa?
A) Actinium
B) lathanium
C) uranium
D) samarium
E) thorium
  • 2. What is the product when Francium-223 is bombarded by beta particles.
A) erbium
B) sodium
C) radium
D) neptunium
E) lathanium
  • 3. In nuclear notation, what is the number found at the upper left corner of the element?
A) neutrons
B) electrons
C) mass number
D) atomic number
E) protons
  • 4. What is the particle without mass?
A) alpha
B) beta
C) positron
D) electron capture
E) gamma
  • 5. The subatomic particles affected during nuclear reactions are
A) protons only.
B) electrons
C) protons and electrons
D) electrons and neutrons
E) protons and neutrons
  • 6. This type of nuclear reaction refers to the splitting of the atoms.
A) fusion
B) half -life
C) degradation
D) regression
E) Fission
  • 7. How many protons are subtracted from the original atom when bombarded by alpha particles
A) 4 protons
B) 3 protons
C) 2 protons
D) 5 protons
E) 6 protons
  • 8. The decay of uranium by beta particles will produce this kind of element
A) neptunium
B) thorium
C) the same element
D) nobelium
E) fermium
  • 9. Which is not a type of nuclear reaction?
A) gamma decay
B) alpha decay
C) transfer of electrons
D) beta decay
E) positron emission
  • 10. If plutonium will be bombarded by gamma particles, what will happen to plutonium?
A) atomic number will change.
B) Atomic mass will change.
C) atomic number will change, but atomic mass will not change.
D) Both atomic mass and atomic number will change.
E) atomic mass and atomic number remains the same.
  • 11. Which type of radiation has the greatest penetrating power?
A) Electron capture
B) Neutron emission
C) Beta particle
D) Alpha particle
E) Gamma ray
  • 12. The technetium-99 isotope has a half-life of 6.0 hours. If 100.0 mg were injected into a patient how much remains after 18 hours?
A) 15 mg
B) 15.8 mg
C) 33.0 mg
D) .33 mg
E) 12.5 mg
  • 13. Barium-122 has a half-life of 2 minutes. A fresh sample weighing 80 g was obtained. If it takes 10 minutes to set up an experiment using barium-122, how much barium-122 will be left when the experiment begins?
A) 50 mg
B) 80g
C) 2.5g
D) 0.25g
E) 25g
  • 14. What does it mean when an element is radioactive?
A) All options listed.
B) Atom emits radiation
C) Nucleus is unstable due to uneven proton to neutron ratio
D) Emits radioactive particles
E) Nucleus changes to become stable
  • 15. The time taken for half of an amount of radioactive atoms to decay.
A) Zero life
B) Half-life
C) Dead time
D) Full-life
E) Nuclear fusion
  • 16. After the nucleus of a radioactive element undergoes changes, the element can transform into ...
A) Both options listed.
B) different isotope of the same element.
C) An entirely different element.
D) Neither option listed.
  • 17. The process of nuclear change in an atom of radioactive material is called...
A) isotopes
B) nuclide
C) nuclear mass
D) radon
E) nuclear decay
  • 18. Which of the following is an example of nuclear fusion?
A) A uranium atom is split apart into lighter elements
B) A plutonium atom is used to start a chain reaction that detonates a nuclear weapon
C) Two hydrogen atoms bond with an oxygen atom to form a water molecule
D) Two hydrogen atoms are combined to form a helium atom
  • 19. Which type of nuclear radiation is being emitted here?
A) alpha
B) positron
C) gamma
D) Beta
E) electron capture
  • 20. This is an example of...
A) Combustion
B) fusion reaction
C) neutralization
D) Fission reaction
E) decomposition
  • 21. What percentage of rubidium-87 atoms will be left after four half lives?
A) 12.5%
B) 3.125%
C) 25.0%
D) 6.25%
  • 22. What particle completes this reaction?
A) neutron
B) alpha particle
C) Beta particle
D) gamma particle
  • 23. What is the missing isotope that will balance the following nuclear equation? 94Be + 11H → _____ + 42He
A) 10B5
B) 6C3
C) 10Ne5
D) 6Li3
  • 24. Which type of nuclear radiation is being emitted here?
A) Beta decay
B) gamma
C) alpha
D) electron capture
E) positron
  • 25. If we start off with element 50X24 after an alpha decay we get another element Y that looks like
A) 54Y26
B) 46Y22
C) 50Y22
D) 48Y20
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