Question: Radium - 2 2 6 decays into radon - 2 2 2 plus an alpha particle. How much energy is released in this process? 1

Radium-226 decays into radon-222 plus an alpha particle. How much energy is released in this
process? 1 u =931.494 MeV/c2. The relevant mass values are:4
2 He ,4.002603 u;222
86 Rn
,222.017570 u;226
88 Ra ,226.025402 u.

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