what is nuclear chemistry?

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anonymous · Answer

help!!!

anonymous · Answer

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nuclear+chemistry. may have been a faster way.

anonymous · Answer

plz............

2bornot2b · Answer

Ok, so what exactly are you willing to know about Nuclear Chemistry?

anonymous · Answer

just everything

2bornot2b · Answer

That would take years...

anonymous · Answer

ok... just in general.... what is it?

2bornot2b · Answer

Anyway, I would like to say the following...
The chemistry in general deals with the electrons, and we generally don't get involved into any details about the nucleus while we are discussing about any chemical reaction..

anonymous · Answer

ya.... I know about electrons... cause we just finished learning about atoms and atomic structure!

2bornot2b · Answer

And it is not that we are not interested about the nucleus of the atom, while we are dealing with a simple chemical reaction, but it is that, nothing significant happens inside it, during a chemical reaction...

anonymous · Answer

so.. the unit is all about chemical reactions, of such chemicals?

2bornot2b · Answer

The nucleus gets involved only when it is participating in a nuclear reaction...

2bornot2b · Answer

I didn't quite get you there...

anonymous · Answer

ahh

anonymous · Answer

so.. its not all chem reactions of different particles?

2bornot2b · Answer

No...Ok I am trying once again.

anonymous · Answer

ok...

2bornot2b · Answer

The atom consists of electrons, protons, and neutrons ...

anonymous · Answer

ya.. we learned that from the previous unit

2bornot2b · Answer

All these days, whatever you were studying, involved the studies of the games played by electrons

anonymous · Answer

ahhhhj

2bornot2b · Answer

In all the chemical reactions, that you studied, the neutron and the proton, never played any role

2bornot2b · Answer

At least not directly...

anonymous · Answer

ya

2bornot2b · Answer

I mean in any of the reactions that you studied till now, you never found a neutron getting removed or added

anonymous · Answer

yes we did... thats what forms an ion

2bornot2b · Answer

The only things that were removed or added were the electrons.

2bornot2b · Answer

Now since that part of the chemistry had no involvement with the nucleus of the atom, we don't call it nucleus chemistry..

anonymous · Answer

ok.........

2bornot2b · Answer

sorry, I meant nuclear chemistry

2bornot2b · Answer

But whatever you are going to study now, will have direct involvement of the nucleus, i.e. either the proton or the neutron or both

2bornot2b · Answer

And in nuclear chemistry the involvement of the electrons don't count...