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• Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
• Alpha particle [r]: helium nucleus; particle of charge 2e and mass 4 u. [e]
• Argon [r]: A chemical element with atomic number 18. It is an inert gas in group 18 of the modern periodic table. [e]
• Arsenic [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol As, and atomic number (the number of protons) 33. [e]
• Astatine [r]: A radioactive chemical element with atomic number Z=85. [e]
• Atomic mass [r]: The mass of an atom expressed in unified atomic mass units (u) and formerly known as atomic weight. [e]
• Atomic number [r]: The number of protons in the nucleus of a single atom of a chemical element. [e]
• Beryllium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Be, and atomic number (the number of protons) 4. [e]
• Bromine [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Br, and atomic number (the number of protons) 35. [e]
• Chemical elements [r]: Chemical elements, in one sense of the term, refers to species or types of atoms and, in another sense of the term, refers to chemical pure substances each composed of atoms solely of a single species or type. [e]
• Chromium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Cr, and atomic number (the number of protons) 24. [e]
• Cobalt [r]: A hard, lustrous, grey metal, a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. [e]
• Cold fusion [r]: Low-energy nuclear reactions that occur in metals saturated with deuterium (heavy hydrogen); widely considered to be fringe or pseudoscience. [e]
• Deuterium [r]: An isotope of the chemical element hydrogen containing one proton and one neutron. [e]
• Electromagnetic wave [r]: a change, periodic in space and time, of an electric field E(r,t) and a magnetic field B(r,t); a stream of electromagnetic waves, referred to as electromagnetic radiation, can be seen as a stream of massless elementary particles, named photons. [e]
• Electron configuration [r]: The arrangement of electrons of an atom, a molecule, or other physical structure, distributed in the orbitals of the given system. [e]
• Electron [r]: Elementary particle that carries a negative elementary charge −e and has mass 9.109  382 15 × 10⁻³¹ kg. [e]
• Enrico Fermi [r]: (1901-1954) Italian born nuclear physicist; designer of the first nuclear reactor. [e]
• Ernest Rutherford [r]: (August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937)The first person to split an atom. [e]
• Evolution of the human diet [r]: Factors in the development of the human diet in history. [e]
• Exponential growth [r]: Increase of a quantity x with time t according to the equation x = Kat, where K and a are constants, a is greater than 1, and K is greater than 0. [e]
• Fission device [r]: An assembly of components, not necessarily in a form usable as a weapon, which will produce a large energy release through nuclear fission [e]
• Gallium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Ga, and atomic number (the number of protons) 31. [e]
• Germanium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Ge, and atomic number (the number of protons) 32. [e]
• Helium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Neutron/Atomic symbol, and atomic number (the number of protons) Neutron/Atomic number. [e]
• Hydrogen [r]: The most abundant and lightest chemical element which has atomic number Z = 1 and chemical symbol H. [e]
• Ionizing radiation [r]: Subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that are energetic enough to detach electrons from atoms or molecules, ionizing them. [e]
• Iridium [r]: A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal and chemical element with atomic number 77, and is represented by the symbol Ir. [e]
• Iron [r]: An important transition metal and chemical element with the symbol Fe (Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26. [e]
• Isotope [r]: An atom of a chemical element with a specific number of neutrons and hence a specific nuclear mass, such as carbon-14 (¹⁴C). [e]
• Krypton [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Li, and atomic number (the number of protons) 3. [e]
• LITTLE BOY (nuclear weapon) [r]: Code name for the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. [e]
• Lithium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Li, and atomic number (the number of protons) 3. [e]
• Magnesium [r]: The metallic element that has atomic number 12 and belongs to alkaline earth metal group. [e]
• Manganese [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Mn, and atomic number (the number of protons) 25. [e]
• Matter [r]: Any substance which has mass and occupies space. [e]
• Molybdenum [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Mo, and atomic number (the number of protons) 42. [e]
• National technical means of verification [r]: Euphemism principally for imagery intelligence satellites and other means of strategic arms control verification, principally because the Soviet Union did not want its public to know that they could not prevent Western observation of the state [e]
• Neon [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Ne, and atomic number (the number of protons) 10. [e]
• Neptunium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Neutron/Atomic symbol, and atomic number (the number of protons) Neutron/Atomic number. [e]
• Nickel [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Ni, and atomic number (the number of protons) 28. [e]
• Niobium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Nb, and atomic number (the number of protons) 41. [e]
• Nitrogen [r]: a chemical element, symbolized by N, whose individual atoms comprise a nucleus of seven protons, i.e,., it has an atomic number, Z = 7. [e]
• Nuclear fission [r]: The process by which a suitable isotope of an element with a higher atomic number absorbs a neutron, producing two or more lower-numbered nuclei and a large release of energy [e]
• Nuclear fuel cycle [r]: The progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages, also called the nuclear fuel chain. [e]
• Nuclear fuel [r]: Material that can be consumed to derive nuclear energy, usually heavy fissile elements that can be made to undergo nuclear fission chain reactions in a nuclear fission reactor. [e]
• Nuclear reactions [r]: The process in which two nuclei or nuclear particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles. [e]
• Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
• Oxidation state [r]: A measure of the degree of oxidation of an atom in a substance. [e]
• Oxidative stress [r]: An imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen and a biological system's ability to readily detoxify the reactive intermediates or easily repair the resulting damage. [e]
• PIE (nuclear fuel) [r]: The study of used nuclear materials such as nuclear fuel. [e]
• Periodic Table of Elements [r]: A tabular method of displaying the chemical elements. [e]
• Polonium [r]: A rare and highly unstable radioactive metalloid with the symbol Po and atomic number 84. [e]
• Potassium [r]: A very reactive, silvery white alkali metal, chemical element 19 with symbol K. [e]
• Protein [r]: A polymer of amino acids; basic building block of living systems. [e]
• Proton [r]: A subatomic particle with an electric charge of +1 elementary charge. [e]
• Quantum mechanics [r]: An important branch of physics dealing with the behavior of matter and energy at very small scales. [e]
• Radiation-emitting product [r]: An electronic device or physical product that emits defined types of ionizing radiation, non-ionizing radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, or sound energy, and makes claims to have medical benefits [e]
• Radioactivity [r]: The property of the unstable nuclei of chemical elements to decay into another isotope, emitting energy or particles [e]
• Radiochemistry [r]: The chemistry of radioactive materials [e]
• Radiographic equipment [r]: Equipment used for radiographic work, both medical and industrial. [e]
• Rubidium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Rb, and atomic number (the number of protons) 37. [e]
• Scandium [r]: A silvery-white metallic transition metal, with symbol Sc and atomic number 21. [e]
• Selenium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Se, and atomic number (the number of protons) 34. [e]
• Silver [r]: A metallic element with the periodic symbol Ag; a precious metal. [e]
• Sodium [r]: A soft, silvery white, highly reactive element which has the symbol Na and atomic number 11. [e]
• Stratigraphy [r]: The interdisciplinary science field that describes all rock bodies that form the Earth's crust and the manner in which they are organised into distinctive units that are then mapped. [e]
• Strontium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Sr, and atomic number (the number of protons) 38. [e]
• Titanium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Ti, and atomic number (the number of protons) 22. [e]
• Tritium [r]: A radioactive isotope of the chemical element hydrogen containing one proton and two neutrons. [e]
• Unified atomic mass unit [r]: A unit of atomic and molecular mass. [e]
• University of Manchester [r]: Largest single higher education institution in the United Kingdom. [e]
• Uranium [r]: A silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. [e]
• Vandium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Li, and atomic number (the number of protons) 3. [e]
• Weak force [r]: One of the four fundamental forces. [e]
• Welding [r]: Fabrication or sculptural process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, by causing coalescence at a high melting point. [e]
• Yttrium [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Y, and atomic number (the number of protons) 39. [e]
• Zinc [r]: A chemical element, having the chemical symbol Zn, and atomic number (the number of protons) 30. [e]