Physics GCSE
Conventional nuclear notation
What Conventional nuclear notation means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Conventional nuclear notation
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Reference: OCR
A way of writing a nucleus with the mass number A as a superscript and the atomic number Z as a subscript, both before the element symbol.
Topics that use Conventional nuclear notation
- Radioactive emissions (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Absorbing materials
- Alpha emission
- Beta emission
- conservation of charge
- conservation of mass number
- Electron energy levels
- Emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation
- Half-life
Using Conventional nuclear notation in the exam
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