At the left side of the reaction
Explanation:
the reaction is spontaneous
Answer:
a series of decays producing sequentially more stable nuclei
Explanation:
A nuclear decay chain represents a series of decays producing sequentially more stable nuclei.
- For every atomic nucleus, there is a specific neutron/proton ratio which ensures the stability of the nucleus.
- Any nucleus with a neutron/proton combination different from its stability ratio (i.e either too many neutrons or too many protons) will be unstable and split into one or more other nuclei with the attendant emission of small particles of matter.
- The decay process is a continuous chain reaction steps.
- Until stability of the nucleus is attain, it continues.
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On a cold winters day, if you left a drink setting outside, it could freeze because the heat (related to the kinetic energy) of the atoms in the drink will be transferred to the environment to achieve energy equilibrium.
Heat transfer occurs by various mechanisms, flowing from the hottest body to the coldest, that's why the heat goes from the drink, which has a higher temperature (and kinetic energy) to the environment, which has a lower temperature. This is described by the second law of thermodynamics
