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-Which process generates the most energy , radioactive decay process or Chemical

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Question

-Which process generates the most energy , radioactive decay process or Chemical reaction processes? - describe the relationship of the law of conversation of mass and to radioactive decay process

-Which process generates the most energy , radioactive decay process or Chemical reaction processes? - describe the relationship of the law of conversation of mass and to radioactive decay process

-Which process generates the most energy , radioactive decay process or Chemical reaction processes? - describe the relationship of the law of conversation of mass and to radioactive decay process


Explanation / Answer

1)Ingeneral radio active decay produces due to more energy than any chemical reaction.

This is due to, in radio active decay a part od mass is converted to equivalent energy (E= mC2). Where as in achemical process only bond energies are invelved, which need lesser energies.

2) Law of conversion of mass states that, for any process mass should neither be created nor be destroyed. But for radio active decay process,some of the initial mass is lost to the decay precess and it is converted to energy.

Therefore radio active deay process doesn't follow law of conservation of mass.