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Honors Chemistry: Nuclear Decay UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What does an alpha particle consist of? - Correct Answer- Two protons and two neutrons What happens to the atomic number during alpha decay? - Correct Answer- It goes down by 4 What happens to the mass number during ...

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Honors Chemistry: Nuclear Decay
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers

What does an alpha particle consist of? - Correct Answer- Two protons and two neutrons


What happens to the atomic number during alpha decay? - Correct Answer- It goes down by
4


What happens to the mass number during alpha decay? - Correct Answer- It goes down by 2


What is a daughter product? - Correct Answer- It is the element that is created after nuclear
decay


What element is emitted during alpha decay? - Correct Answer- Helium


What happens to a decaying neutron during beta decay? - Correct Answer- It changes from a
neutron to a proton and an electron


What happens to the electron during beta decay? - Correct Answer- It is emitted after being
transformed from a neutron


What is radioactivity? - Correct Answer- Means that an atom has a tendency to undergo
spontaneous nuclear decay


How does beta decay affect the mass number of an atom? - Correct Answer- The mass
number stays the same


How does beta decay affect the atomic number of an atom? - Correct Answer- The atomic
number of an atom will go up by 1


What is a positron? - Correct Answer- A type of antimatter equivalent to an electron

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