Whats more radioactive cobalt or cesium
 

Whats more radioactive cobalt or cesium

i just dont have that answer right on the tip of my tongue

google won't help :(

I'm not doing your homework for you.

http://bioterrorism.slu.edu/dirty/dirty.pdf


nice reading material...

doesnt' say which one is more radioactive

it for my gf...
i thought maybe there was a chemist on gfy silly me :)

I think as you've put it they would be non-radioactive. It would be an isotope that would be radioactive, I haven't done chem in about ten years though :)

Took 2 seconds to target search...

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=rad...=20&fl=0&x=wrt


The answer must be in there somewhere....

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/r...dioactive.html



Good luck.

http://www.sem.com/spectro/period.gif

I dont think cobalt is radioactive. Look at the periodic table, only the compounds at the bottom are radioactive. Cobalt is way at the top, i dont think its radioactive at all

it seems that cobalt is but here this is from them encyclopedia

Measuring Radiation
The amount of radioactivity in a given sample of radioisotope is expressed by the new SI unit, the becquerel (Bq). The old unit was the curie (Ci). One becquerel of a radioisotope is the exact quantity that produces one disintegration per second. The curie is 3.7 x 1010 Bq disintegrations per second. Thus 1 Bq = 2.7 x 10-11 Ci and 1 Ci = 3.7 x 1010 Bq. As the becquerel is as inconveniently small for many uses as the curie was inconveniently large, prefixes such as micro ( ) (10-6), milli (m) (10-3), kilo (k) (103), and so on are routinely used. Following nuclear detonations, the amounts of radioactive material produced are very large and the terms petabecquerel (PBq) (1015 Bq) and exabecquerel (EBq) (1018 Bq) may be used. The term megacurie (MCi) (106 Ci) was once used.

it doesn't matter where in the periodic table something is.. carbon has radioactive isotopes that's how they do carbon dating.