They use it because it's standerize and evidence vase
The radioactive decay of unstable isotopes continually generates new energy within Earth's crust and mantle, providing the primary source of the heat that drives mantle convection. Plate tectonics can be viewed as the surface expression of mantle convection.
A rod of a neutron-absorbing substance used to vary the output power of a nuclear reactor.
It can change the phase of matter. The rest of the answers are chemical changes but increasing temperature indices a physical change which is only found in the first choice
A molecule is usually reserved to represent the smallest particle of a compound.