Ejemplos de uso de radioactive decay
1. The package was contaminated with americium 241, a radioactive decay product of plutonium.
2. The microbe‘s energy source is the radioactive decay of nearby rocks, a process known as radiolysis.
3. Helium is produced by radioactive decay, and thus is evidence of how long the water had been underground.
4. The two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, sent up in 2003, had much smaller amounts of plutonium, which creates energy from natural radioactive decay.
5. Now a new model suggests ancient radioactive decay played a key role in shaping the moon‘s warm south pole region, where plumes of water vapor and ice crystals periodically vent.