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Ch.20 - Nuclear Chemistry

Chapter 20, Problem 44

Americium-241, a radioisotope used in smoke detectors, decays by a series of 12 reactions involving sequential loss of a, a, b, a, a, b, a, a, a, b, a, and b particles. Identify each intermediate nucleus and the final stable product nucleus.

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