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Chapter14: Nuclear Physics Applications
Section: Chapter Questions
Problem 17P
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Transcribed Image Text:Demonstrate your nuclear reaction balancing skills by answering the following three
scenarios.
You will fill the first nine blanks with either an integer numeral (1-3 digits), or the
chemical symbol for an element (1-2 letters). For example, Curium has the chemical
symbol Cm, and its most stable isotope has mass number A=247 and atomic number
Z-96. (These are not answers to this question.)
a) Identify the unknown daughter nucleus (?) in the following reaction:
1
¹235U + ¼n → ¹3¹1 + (?) + 3 (√n)
92
53
Enter the mass number A =
Enter the atomic number Z =
Enter the chemical symbol:
A
N
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