Welcome Citizensmith!

[pErvinalia]

Yeah, but where does God fit into all this??

[Svartalf]

Look in the glove compartment , under the maps and pistol.

[pErvinalia]

Citizensmith has left us already...

[FBM]

Was he ever really here? :woo:


We need a smiley for that.

[HomerJay]

[HomerJay]

But, the priest at my school being a part time ventriloquist and entertaining us by talking through an emu puppet probably didn't help my religion.

As was the style at the time

[JimC]

Yeah, loss of electrons I guess, but I don't get what becomes of the then unpaired protons, do they turn to neutrons?

Beta decay involve the conversion of neutrons into protons, with the emission of a beta particle, which is identical to an electron. The atomic number goes up with each decay, but the mass number remains the same. Beta decay is typical of unstable radioisotopes that have a comparative excess of neutrons. An anti-neutrino is also emitted...

There is also the much rarer beta+ decay, which results in a proton transmuting into a neutron, a positron and a neutrino. And the analogous "electron capture", in which a proton and an electron become a neutron and a neutrino.

All are mediated by the Weak Force and are actually the conversion between up and down quarks within nucleons via the emission of W bosons, which then decay into electron/neutrinos of various types.

But I'm sure you knew all that.

You would get an A+ in my unit on radioactivity...

As long as you behaved yourself in class, of course...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Yeah, loss of electrons I guess, but I don't get what becomes of the then unpaired protons, do they turn to neutrons?

Beta decay involve the conversion of neutrons into protons, with the emission of a beta particle, which is identical to an electron. The atomic number goes up with each decay, but the mass number remains the same. Beta decay is typical of unstable radioisotopes that have a comparative excess of neutrons. An anti-neutrino is also emitted...

There is also the much rarer beta+ decay, which results in a proton transmuting into a neutron, a positron and a neutrino. And the analogous "electron capture", in which a proton and an electron become a neutron and a neutrino.

All are mediated by the Weak Force and are actually the conversion between up and down quarks within nucleons via the emission of W bosons, which then decay into electron/neutrinos of various types.

But I'm sure you knew all that.

You would get an A+ in my unit on radioactivity...

As long as you behaved yourself in class, of course...

If there's enough gin...

[Bella Fortuna]

There is NEVER enough gin!

[Svartalf]

Depends, do we have an infinite amount of tonic?

[MiM]

Now, now Svarty, this was about Gin. Stop mixing things.

[Svartalf]

I like gin better with tonic and angostura bitters.

[Citizensmith]

Nobody told me I'd be learning things if I came here. Well aside from alcohol and cheese related things. Funny thing is I've done a bunch of radiation work (we dug up some plutonium at a landfill site. Boy did that cost some money to clean up), but I definitely don't know the subject that well.

[Citizensmith]

Which is of course exactly where my user name came from. Been using this one for about 20 years now in varying corners of the interwebs.

[FBM]

Bella should have warned you about those few eggheads who go around imparting knowledge on the unwitting masses.