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Msn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction? HandoutMsn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction? Handout
Publisher
MadSci Network
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6th - 8th
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Science
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1130L
Handout

Msn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction?

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From The Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page discusses three types of nuclear reactions - spontaneous decay reactions, nuclear fision reactions, and nuclear fusion reactions. Each reaction type is explained, compared and contrasted.

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Concepts

decay, fission, hydrogen, nuclear decay, fusion

Additional Tags

alpha, beta, binding energy, deuterium, deuterium fuel, deuterium fusion, fuse, gamma, hydrogen fusion, nuclear, nuclear change, nuclear particles, nuclear physics, nuclear reactions, nucleus, protium, spontaneous decay, tritium, einstein

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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