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  2. Decay heat - Wikipedia

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    Decay heat is the heat released as a result of radioactive decay. This heat is produced as an effect of radiation on materials: the energy of the alpha, beta or gamma radiation is converted into the thermal movement of atoms. Decay heat occurs naturally from decay of long-lived radioisotopes that are primordially present from the Earth's formation.

  3. Exponential decay - Wikipedia

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    Heat transfer: If an object at one temperature is exposed to a medium of another temperature, the temperature difference between the object and the medium follows exponential decay (in the limit of slow processes; equivalent to "good" heat conduction inside the object, so that its temperature remains relatively uniform through its volume).

  4. Decay energy - Wikipedia

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    The decay energy is the mass difference Δm between the parent and the daughter atom and particles. It is equal to the energy of radiation E . If A is the radioactive activity , i.e. the number of transforming atoms per time, M the molar mass, then the radiation power P is:

  5. Radioactive decay - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is considered radioactive. Three of the most common types of decay are alpha, beta, and gamma decay.

  6. Q value (nuclear science) - Wikipedia

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    Exothermic chemical reactions tend to be more spontaneous and can emit light or heat, resulting in runaway feedback(i.e. explosions). Q values are also featured in particle physics. For example, Sargent's rule states that weak reaction rates are proportional to Q 5. The Q value is the kinetic energy released in the decay at

  7. Earth's internal heat budget - Wikipedia

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    The flow of heat from Earth's interior to the surface is estimated at 47±2 terawatts (TW) [1] and comes from two main sources in roughly equal amounts: the radiogenic heat produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantle and crust, and the primordial heat left over from the formation of Earth. [2]

  8. Fission product yield - Wikipedia

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    Known as "chain yield" because it represents a decay chain of beta decay. Isotope and element yields will change as the fission products undergo beta decay, while chain yields do not change after completion of neutron emission by a few neutron-rich initial fission products (delayed neutrons), with half-life measured in seconds.

  9. Alpha decay - Wikipedia

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    Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay, where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind. It is the most common form because of the combined extremely high nuclear binding energy and relatively small mass of the alpha particle.