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Nuclear Chemistry Webquest
Your assignment is to send an email to your teacher, with answers, in your own words, to the questions below.
I recommend that you begin by opening an email message, and then copying and pasting the questions below into that email message. Keep that email window open, and open one or more separate windows to do the research of your Webquest.
Questions:
1. What is the approximate year when radioactivity was discovered? What scientists and which elements were involved?
2. Why was Wilhelm Roentgen expelled from school?
3. What accident of weather helped Henri Becquerel make a discovery?
4. Who was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes?
5. When Ernest Rutherford bombarded a thin gold foil with alpha particles, he was astonished to discover that about one in 8000 would bounce back. In a famous often-quoted comment, Rutherford said that it was "as if _______________________________________."
6. True or False: A "dirty bomb" (a conventional bomb with radioactive material) is just as big a threat as a nuclear bomb.
7. True or False: There are eight chemical weapons depots throughout the United States -- many of them located in populated communities.
8. What are the two ways of making chemical weapons into safe chemicals?
9. In the simulation, what two strategies did you use for keeping the nuclear core from melting down?
10. How much coal does it take to give the same amount of electricity as you can get from one kilogram of uranium?
11. Where was the world's first nuclear power station built? Is it still in operation?
12. What happened at Chernobyl? (and when)
13. What happened at Three Mile Island? (and when)
14. What happened in "the Goiânia Accident"?
15. Who were the Radium Girls? What happened to them?
16. What is nuclear fusion? Have you benefitted from nuclear fusion today?
17. Name several different renewable energy sources. If you were to become a professional expert on one of these energy sources, which would you pick, and why?
Resources for your search:
The Discovery Of Radioactivity: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Radioactivity: Historical Figures
Experiment with and master the following:
You can find more with Google (the Search Engine) and Wikipedia (the Free Online Encyclopedia).
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