Nuclear Energy PSA: Nuclear Reactions vs. Chemical Reactions

Mar 3, 2009

Nuclear Reactions vs. Chemical Reactions

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Nuclear and chemical reactions can be exothermic (release energy) or endothermic (require energy input). The reactions help turn matter into some form of energy and they create something new in the end. In a nuclear reaction one of more new atoms are formed, and in a chemical reaction one of more new elements are formed. Nuclear reactions change the particles in the nucleus of an atom, while chemical reactions have nothing to do with the nucleus at all. Instead, chemical reactions occur with the electron clouds outside of the nucleus and change the particles that surround it. (Science Help Online Chemistry, 2004)

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