Making repeated separations of the various substances in the pitchblende, Marie and Pierre used the Curie electrometer to identify the most radioactive fractions. They thus discovered that two fractions, one containing mostly bismuth and the other containing mostly barium, were strongly radioactive.
<h3>What was surprising about pitchblende?</h3>
Since it was no longer appropriate to call them “uranic rays,” Marie proposed a new name: “radioactivity.”
Even more surprising, Marie next found that a uranium ore called pitchblende contained two powerfully radioactive new elements: polonium, which she named for her native Poland, and radium.
<h3>Why is radium more radioactive than uranium?</h3>
It is 2.7 million times more radioactive than the same molar amount of natural uranium (mostly uranium-238), due to its proportionally shorter half-life.
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The answer for this question is D.
Answer:The correct answer is option C.
Explanation;
Water has unique property that is, it expands on freezing.Which is the reason for less density of ice than water. The cracking of the bottle was due to the expansion of water (present inside the bottle) on freezing.
Generally, density is inversely proportional to the volume of the substance.


As we know ,that water expands on freezing which means that volume increases. And with increase in volume of density decreases.
Hence, the correct answer is option C.
<u>Answer:</u> The pH of the buffer is 5.25
<u>Explanation:</u>
Let the volume of buffer solution be V
We know that:

To calculate the pH of acidic buffer, we use the equation given by Henderson Hasselbalch:
![pH=pK_a+\log(\frac{[\text{conjugate base}]}{[acid]})](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=pH%3DpK_a%2B%5Clog%28%5Cfrac%7B%5B%5Ctext%7Bconjugate%20base%7D%5D%7D%7B%5Bacid%5D%7D%29)
We are given:
= negative logarithm of acid dissociation constant of weak acid = 4.90
![[\text{conjugate base}]=\frac{2.25}{V}](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5B%5Ctext%7Bconjugate%20base%7D%5D%3D%5Cfrac%7B2.25%7D%7BV%7D)
![[acid]=\frac{1.00}{V}](https://tex.z-dn.net/?f=%5Bacid%5D%3D%5Cfrac%7B1.00%7D%7BV%7D)
pH = ?
Putting values in above equation, we get:

Hence, the pH of the buffer is 5.25