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can someone pls help m eout with dot point 5.2.3 in the production of materials module: "describe how commercial radioisotopes are produced"... i cant find much ... theres a bit on CSU but dont i need more than that? its a bit brief...
 

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umm...*thinks back*

isnt it something about bombarding an element (uranium i think) with neutrons or protons in a nuclear reactor to create the radioisotopes?

lol...dont take this as gospel, its almost guarenteed to be wrong ;)
 

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Your right, but it doesn't necesarrily need to be uranium.

It is done in a cyclotron or nuclear reactor.

For that dot point, you'd probably need to use an example such as bombarding element X with element Y to get a new element.
 

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You have two main types:

You have bombarding atoms with nuclei of other atoms (eg Calcium-40 is sometimes used as the nucleus that is bombarded into others)

You Chuck neutrons into Uranium which then undergoes beta decay etc.
 

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yes, pretty much xayma said...

option 1, use cyclotron or linear accelerator to bombard charged particles at heavy nucleus in hopin that they will fuse into a same one...

option 2 bombard heavy nucleous wif neutrons in hopin an beta decay will occur and brings Z to higher...
 

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Originally posted by t-i-m-m-y
make sure u have an example for this
lolz, oh yea, forgot to mention dat...

ain't hard, just do the eqn, and add up the numbers... if they dun match, somthing's wrong... ^^
 

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