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Galvanostatic current-pulse method, 38 29, 33 Galvanostatic technique hydrocarbon adsorption, 30 256 surface coverage, 30 299-300 Gamma emission, 26 124, 125, 127 Garin-Gault mechanism, 30 20, 23 Gas chromatography -atomic emission detection... 

Other frequently used methods for determining fluoride include ion and gas chromatography [150,204,205] and aluminium monofluoride (AIF) molecular absorption spectrometry [206,207]. Less frequently employed methods include enzymatic [208], catalytic [209], polarographic [210] and voltammetric methods [211], helium microwave-induced [212] or inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry [213], electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry [214], inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry [215], radioactivation [216], proton-induced gamma emission [217], near-infrared spectroscopy [218] and neutron activation analysis [219]. 

There are five main types of emissions alpha emission, beta emission, positron emission, electron capture, and gamma emission. Four of these produce changes in the elements undergoing decay, and the end result is a more stable atomic structure. 

The fifth type of radioactive emission, gamma radiation, does not result in a change in the properties of the atoms. As a result, they are usually omitted from nuclear equations. Gamma emissions often accompany other alpha or beta reactions—any decay that has an excess of energy that is released. For example, when a positron collides with an electron, two gamma rays are emitted, a phenomenon usually referred to as annihilation radiation. 

All the nuclear reactions that have been described thus far are examples of radioactive decay, where one element is converted into another element by the spontaneous emission of radiation. This conversion of an atom of one element to an atom of another element is called transmutation. Except for gamma emission, which does not alter an atom s atomic number, all nuclear reactions are transmutation reactions. Some unstable nuclei, such as the uranium salts used by Henri Becquerel, undergo transmutation naturally. However, transmutation may also be forced, or induced, by bombarding a stable nucleus with high-energy alpha, beta, or gamma radiation. 

Complete the concept map using the following terms positron emission, alpha decay, atoms, nnstable, do not decay, beta decay, stable, gamma emission, and electron captnre. 

The SNF portion of HLW can be understood by chemists who see in it nearly every element on the periodic chart of the elements. After a 235u nucleus undergoes fission and releases its excess nuclear binding energy, it leaves a pair of new atoms. These fission products are like newly born forms of the elements that are already well known and, like newborns, are unstable until they mature. There are about 1000 isotopes of about 100 different elements in SNF, and most are radioactive. They decay into stable elements at different rates, giving off alpha, beta, and gamma emissions. It will take about 7000 years until the SNF will be only as radioactive as the rocks and minerals that make up our planet. 

The are a number of different procedures, the most popular of which is termed the Ko method (e.g., Negi et al. 1997). Small samples of sediment (e. 0.15 g) are irradiated by neutrons from a nuclear reactor for a few tens of hours. This aetivates the nuelei of atoms in the sample, leading to gamma emission which can be measured using a Ge detector. The method can measure a wide range of elements simultaneously, with excellent sensitivity and detection limits for some elements (e.g., Smodis et al., 1993 Negi et al., 1997). 

In gamma emission, there is no change in the mass number or the atomic number of the new nucleus. 

In the heaviest nuclei transitions between excited states are dominated by internal conversion electron emission over gamma emission. It is important to realize that the emission of conversion electrons is a direct process, and does not proceed via an intermediate gamma ray. This is mainly due to the increased probability of finding an atomic electron (its wave function) inside the nucleus where energy can be transferred to it directly. We define the internal conversion coefficient a as the ratio of the number of electrons that get emitted to the number of gamma rays emitted during the decay of a sufficiently large ensemble ... 

The most important types of radioactive particles are alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, and X-rays. An alpha particle, which is symbolized as a, is equivalent to a helium nucleus, fHe. Thus, emission of an alpha particle results in a new isotope whose atomic number and atomic mass number are, respectively, 2 and 4 less than that for the unstable parent isotope. 

Instmmental methods such as atomic absorption and emission spectrometry, and gamma activation ate employed in most beryUium determinations however, gravimetric and tritrimetric methods remain useful when high accuracy is required. 

The origin of the rays was initially a mystery, because the existence of the atomic nucleus was unknown at the time. However, in 1898, Ernest Rutherford took the first step to discover their origin when he identified three different types of radioactivity by observing the effect of electric fields on radioactive emissions (Fig. 17.4). Rutherford called the three types a (alpha), (3 (beta), and y (gamma) radiation. 

Transition, Isomeric—The process by which a nuclide decays to an isomeric nuclide (i.e., one of the same mass number and atomic number) of lower quantum energy. Isomeric transitions (often abbreviated I.T.) proceed by gamma ray and/or internal conversion electron emission. 

The numerical combination of protons and neutrons in most nuclides is such that the nucleus is quantum mechanically stable and the atom is said to be stable, i.e., not radioactive however, if there are too few or too many neutrons, the nucleus is unstable and the atom is said to be radioactive. Unstable nuclides undergo radioactive transformation, a process in which a neutron or proton converts into the other and a beta particle is emitted, or else an alpha particle is emitted. Each type of decay is typically accompanied by the emission of gamma rays. These unstable atoms are called radionuclides their emissions are called ionizing radiation and the whole property is called radioactivity. Transformation or decay results in the formation of new nuclides some of which may themselves be radionuclides, while others are stable nuclides. This series of transformations is called the decay chain of the radionuclide. The first radionuclide in the chain is called the parent the subsequent products of the transformation are called progeny, daughters, or decay products. 

In terms of atomic spectrometry, NAA is a method combining excitation by nuclear reaction with delayed de-excitation of the radioactive atoms produced by emission of ionising radiation (fi, y, X-ray). Measurement of delayed particles or radiations from the decay of a radioactive product of a neutron-induced nuclear reaction is known as simple or delayed-gamma NAA, and may be purely instrumental (INAA). The y-ray energies are characteristic of specific indicator radionuclides, and their intensities are proportional to the amounts of the various target nuclides in the sample. NAA can thus... 

EXAMPLE 22.7. When a 2 1 nucleus disintegrates, the following series of alpha and bela particles is emitted alpha, beta, beta, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, alpha, beta, alpha, beta, beta, beta, alpha. (Since emission of gamma particles accompanies practically every disintegration and since gamma particles do not change the atomic number or mass number of an isotope, they are not listed.) Show that each isotope produced has a mass number that differs from 238 by some multiple of 4. 

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