Physics GCSE
Nuclear notation with mass and proton numbers
What Nuclear notation with mass and proton numbers means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Nuclear notation with mass and proton numbers
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Reference: OCR
Writing a nucleus with its mass number as a superscript and its proton number as a subscript, for example uranium-238 as ²³⁸₉₂U.
Topics that use Nuclear notation with mass and proton numbers
- Radioactive emissions (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Absorbing materials
- Alpha emission
- Beta emission
- conservation of charge
- conservation of mass number
- Conventional nuclear notation
- Electron energy levels
- Emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation
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