Nuclear Chemistry questions

1. Delineated are radioactive nuclei Na-22, I-131, U-

238, Hg-201 and C-14. Which decay will produce
alpha, beta, positron, neutron, proton and gamma
respectively to convert neutron into a proton.

2. Which form of radioactive decay will carbon-14 use

to increase its nuclear stability?

3. The half- life of oxygen-15 is 2 minutes. If there are

320 g of O-15 in a sample, how many grams of O-15
will remain after 10 minutes?

4. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days. If there are 1200

g of I-131 how long will it take for 1125 g of I-l31 to
decay?

5. What fraction of a sample undergoing radioactive

decay will remain after 5 half- lives?
6. I-131 has a half-life of 8 days. If there are 200 g of
this sample, how much of I-131 will remain after 32
days

7. The half-life of O-15 is 2 minutes. What fraction of a

sample of O-15 will remain after 5 half- lives?

8. It takes 35 days for a 512 gram sample of element X

to decay to a final amount of 4 grams. What is the
half-life of element X

9. Na-24 has a half-life of 15 hours. If there are 800 g

of Na-24 initially how long will it take for 750 g of
Na-24 to decay?

10. A living tree has a C-14 decay rate of 13.6

counts per minute per gram. A sample of wood
from a similar tree has a decay rate of 8.4 counts
per minute per gram. How long has it been since
the wood was part of a living tree?