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dolbinau

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I don' t think they've ever done it in a past HSC exam, but in the successOne questions at the front - in the medical physics section - there is a question where you are expected to name the product of an isotope decaying.

How can we do this without chemistry knowledge?

How am I supposed to know what iodine turns into if it loses an electron or whatever?

Do we even need to know this?
 

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I dont think they could ask that, they'd just ask uses of radiopharmaceuticals in PET or radioactive compounds which accumulate in specific organs and name iodine or technetium.
 

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They expect you to know about PET scans and gased on that a product of radioactive decay (positron). They don't expect you to do nuclear equations to determine radioactive products.
 

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