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Chapter 7.1 Radioactivity & Radiation (Radioactivity and Nuclear Physics)
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If a nucleus be too heavy or has excess energy, and not has the right balance of protons and neutrons then it will be a unstable nucleus. To be stable it will emit radiation (particles of matter and rays of energy, Fig. 1a), and in so doing becomes nucleus of other elements (Fig. 1b). The process of emitting radiation is called radioactivity. Despite the strength of the forces that hold nucleons together to
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