What are the ideal radioisotopes for this dotpoint (Quanta to Quark)?
"describe some medical and industrial applications of radio-isotopes
identify data sources, and gather, process, and analyse information to describe the use of: – a named isotope in medicine – a named isotope in agriculture – a named isotope in engineering"
Is Cobalt-60 for Agriculture or Engineering?
I'm confused on how Heisenberg and Pauli contributed to atomic theory
Can anyone clarify this?
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Hey! Co-60 is used in agriculture for food irradiation. For medicine, Tc-99m (used in diagnostic imaging) is probably the best one to use. For engineering, you could use Na-24 (used to detect leaks) or Ir-192 (used to detect structural faults).
Heisenberg developed
matrix mechanics, which was a completely mathematical model of the atom - this was able to provide an explanation of the limitations of Bohr's model (different intensities of spectral lines, hyperfine lines, Zeeman effect, emission spectra of atoms larger than H) and more. He also proposed the
uncertainty principle, which states that there is a fundamental limit to how accurately an electron's position and momentum can be determined:
Pauli proposed the
exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons can have the same 4 quantum numbers (principle, orbital, magnetic, spin) - this explained the electron distribution in atoms and the position of elements in the periodic table. He also proposed the existence of the
neutrino to explain the differing energies of beta decay.
Hope this helps!