Fundamentals of Physics Extended
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Author: David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
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Chapter 42, Problem 92P
To determine
To:
(a) justify and show that if a nuclide belongs to one of the decay chain family, then all its decay products also belongs to the same family.
Then classify the following nuclides to a family:
(b) 235U
(c) 236U
(d) 238U
(e) 239Pu
(f) 240Pu
(g) 245Cm
(h) 246Cm
(i) 249Cf
(j) 253Fm
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