Timeline for Is the photoelectric effect a type of nuclear decay?
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| Sep 6, 2014 at 21:05 | vote | accept | DWade64 | ||
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:23 | answer | added | Andre Holzner | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | CuriousOne | No, but is there an equivalent of the photoelectric effect for nuclei? Sure. If you ramp up the energy of a gamma into the MeV range or higher, it can knock constituents out of nuclei in non-elastic scattering events, just as visible or near UV light can liberate electrons from atoms or metals. Can you do the photoelectric effect at home? Sure. It's not a completely trivial experiment, but it can be done. Are you asking for instructions? | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | AlanZ2223 | Nuclear decay - root word "nucleus". Is the photoelectric effect a type of nuclear decay : No. | |
| Sep 6, 2014 at 19:46 | history | asked | DWade64 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |