Answer:
1) Since you have not provided the equations to select the right one, I am going to explain you the relevant facts that are used to solve this question.
2) The transuranium elements are the chemiical elements with atomic number greater than that of the uranium.
The atomic number of uranium is 92. So, the transuranium elements are the elements with atomic number 93 or greater.
This are some of the transuranium elements:
Neptunio - 93
Plutonium - 94
Americium - 95
Curium - 96
Berkelium - 97
Californium - 98
Einstenium - 99
And so all the known elements (the last one is the 118).
3) In a nuclear reaction the total mass number ( shown as superscript to the left of the symbol) and total atomic number (shown as subscript to the left of the symbol) are conserved.
4) Beta decay is the release of a beta particle, which is an electron (considered massles and with charge - 1). So, the beta decay is represented with the symbol:
0
β, which means 0 mass and charge - 1.
-1
5) This is, then, an example of a β decay equation for one transuranium element:
239 239 0
Np → Pu + β
93 94 -1
As you see 239 = 239 + 0 and 93 = 94 - 1, showing that the total mass number ( shown as superscript to the left of the symbol) and the total atomic number (shown as subscript to the left of the symbol) are conserved.
Explanation:
Answer:
The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere, the molten upper portion of the mantle. Oceanic and continental plates come together, spread apart, and interact at boundaries all over the planet.
Explanation:
From Google
In an electrically neuteral atom, number of protons = number of electrons = atomic number.
Mass number = neutrons + protons/electrons/atomic number
Therefore,
neutrons = mass number - <span>protons/electrons/atomic number
Neutrons = 33 - 15 = 18
The answer is thus B. But this is the solution and explanation along with it as proof.</span>
