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Periodic table
At tabular arrangement of elements according to their atomic numbers.
Fossil fuels
Fuels formed by nautral resources such as buried bodies.
Protons
Subatomic particle with a positive electric charge.
Neutrons
Elementary particle with a neutral charge and a mass almost equal to a proton.
Carbon dioxide
A heavy odourless gas formed during repiration of humans and animals or when things are burned.
Greenhouse effect
Warming that happens when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere.
Renewable
Something that can be renews or extended
Ozone
A colourless gas (O3) which occurs in the stratosphere, 20 to 30km above the Earth's surface.
Ultra-violet light
Electromagnetic radiation with a wacelength shorter than visible light.
Cancer
A disease in which harmful growths form in the body.
Radioactive element
A pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number
Alpha particles
Consists of two protons and two neutrons bound togther into a particle identical to a helium nucleus
Beta particles
High-energy, high-speed electrons or protons emitted by certain types of radioactive nuclei.
Gamma radiation
Electromagnetic radiation emmitted during radio-active decay and has an extremely short wavelength.
Nuclear Fission
A nuclear reaction where a nucleus splits.
Nuclear Fusion
A nuclear reaction where nuclei combines to form a bigger nuclei
Half-life
The time required for half of the atoms in any given quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay into another element.
Radio-isotopes
An element produced either naturally or artifically.
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