Essays Tagged: "Atomic nucleus"

Nuclear Energy

live.Nuclear energy is contained in the center, or nucleus of an atom. This energy is also known as atomic energy because its obtained from atoms, unfortunately this is not a good choice of words (bec ... nately this is not a good choice of words (because many other energies are obtained from atoms). An atomic bomb explosion shows just how powerful muclear energy really is. Such as the underwater explo ...

(4 pages) 232 5 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Creation of a Cosmology: Big Bang Theory Chronological history of the events, scientists and their discoveries.

ive or take five billion years, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the moment before creation when space and time did n ... in temperature on any measurement scale, that was infinitely dense, created not only fundamental subatomic particles and thus matter and energy but space and time itself. Cosmology theorists combined ...

(16 pages) 311 1 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Describe and explain the periodic trends of the period 3 elements Na - Ar

periodic table, these are some of the trends shown from looking at the periodicity of the elements.Atomic radiusAn atom doesn't have a fixed radius. The radius of an atom can only be found by measuri ... by measuring the distance between the nuclei of two touching atoms, and then halving that distance. Atomic radius is measured in nm.The graph shows that atomic radius decreases across a period (from l ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

What is radioactivity?

beings - consists of molecules, which are combinations of atoms. Atoms include a positively charged nucleus, around which move negatively charged electrons. The atom is neutral.The nucleus of the atom ... neutral.The nucleus of the atom includes positively charged protons as well as neutrons. It is this nucleus that is transformed when a radiation is emitted by radioactivity.Protons and neutrons are, i ...

(1 pages) 40 2 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Chemistry 10 Notes on Atomic Structure and Half Life.

Atomic Structure Atom: smallest particle of an element that can exist by itself Main 2 ... 1/1839 (1/2000) Not taken into account cuz it doesn't make a difference in total mass Atomic # = # protons & electrons (if neutral) Atomic Mass = # protons + # electrons ... ; neutrons Becomes more stable Writing Elements Write Symbol Top left = atomic mass Bottom left = atomic # Sometimes omitted (implied by symbol) Old Wa ...

(1 pages) 16 0 0.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Everything you need to know about a cell - definitions in outline form, interpretation of Honors Biology intro.

s of the element; contains protons, neutrons, and electronsb.molecules- units of two or more atomsc.atomic nucleus- core of atom that accounts for almost all its mass; (-)electrons move rapidly around ...

(6 pages) 59 1 4.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Atomic structure

In examining atomic structure though, we have to clarify this statement. An atom cannot be broken down further wi ... efore it would take almost 20 million hydrogen atoms to make a line as long as the dash. In the sub-atomic world, things often behave a bit strangely. First of all, the electron actually spins very fa ... and neutrons, the size of the atom increases. We can measure an atom's size in two ways: using the atomic number (Z) or using the atomic mass (A, also known as the mass number). The atomic number des ...

(5 pages) 36 0 4.5 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Decaying Of Radioactive Isotopes

c activity. Others decay at a much slower rate.Radioactive decay is the spontaneous breakdown of an atomic nucleus resulting in the release of energy and matter from the nucleus. Remember that a radio ...

(1 pages) 20 1 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Chemestry Notes: - development of periodic table, organization of elements, atomic structure, and modern periodic table, isotopes, summary of chapter

1.1 The development of the periodic tableAtomic number: the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given elemen ... tom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus.Atomic Mass: the mass of an isotope of an element measured in units formerly based on the mass of on ... mass of the carbon-12 atom.Isotope: either of two or more forms of a chemical element with the same atomic number but different numbers of neutrons.Mass number: the number of protons and neutrons in t ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

The Energy Crisis

Nuclear Energy, a non-renewable energy source, is energy released during the splitting or fusing of atomic nuclei. The energy of any system, whether physical, chemical, or nuclear, is manifested by it ...

(4 pages) 48 0 3.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

The Big Bang Theory

rth. It all started between 10 and 20 billion years ago when the entire universe was only an atomic nucleus. The moment before creation, when space and did not exist is known as singularity, bu ... en came an explosion with temperatures hitting in the trillions of degrees that created not only subatomic particles, but matter space, and time itself.The Big Bang Theory Jason Piaia March 26, 2000 ...

(1 pages) 22 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Uranium Poem

ble Located to the right It's the element U, To it's great delight.Shown also on the table Are it's atomic number and mass Notice that U is very heavy, All natural metals does it pass Uranium is not p ... riodic table and are atoms with a certain amount of protons.Uranium is an element with 92 protons.2)Atomic Mass - The atomic mass of an element is the average weight of all the types of an element.Sin ...

(3 pages) 3095 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Big Bang

at one point.Before the Big Bang the entirety of the universe was contained into the confines of an atomic nucleus. This is known as singularity and this was the condition of the universe before its c ...

(6 pages) 31 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

History Time line of the Atom

rent elements combine in simple whole numbers to form compounds.-It was not until 1850 that another atomic theory was proposed. Dalton stated that all matter is made of indivisible and indestructible ... it quantum mechanics. Therefore, in quantum mechanics, there is not an electron circling aroung the atomic nucleus, but rather an electron orbital (an 'electron cloud') giving the distribution of the ...

(6 pages) 20 0 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry