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Chemistry: Radioactive Decay

References

The references below were used in creating this unit and website.

OCRWM Education Curriculum, "Science, Society, and America's Nuclear Waste available at www.rw.doe.gov/progdocs/edresource.htm (last accessed on July 17, 2002.)

Physics 2000 from the University of Colorado at Boulder, http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/isotopes/index.html (last accessed on July 17, 2002.)

Half-life information for various isotopes were found at www.imbris.net/~jfromm/nuclear/halflife.htm (last accessed on July 17, 2002)

Decay series information was obtained from the HyperPhysics website at http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html (last accessed on July 17, 2002)

Decay series card acitivity was adapted from the Denver Earth Science Project's curriculum materials "Do You Know Your 3R's? Radiation, Radioactivity, and Radon" For more information on these materials see http://www.mines.edu/Outreach/Cont_Ed/desp.shtml.

The Internet Decay Model used in the model can be found at www.journey.sunysb.edu/ProjectJava/Radiation/home.html This is a page on the Earth Science Educational Resource Center of the Mineral Physics Institute Stony Brook University. The main page is at www.journey.sunysb.edu

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