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Please explain the following:

1. How is a radioactive material different from a material that is not radioactive? What is radioactive decay?

2. Describe how the radioactive decay rate can be changed if this is possible. Describe three kinds of radiation emitted by radioactive materials.

3. Describe what eventually happens to each kind of radiation after it is emitted.

4. How are positively charged protons able to stay together in a nucleus since like charges repel?

5. What is a half-life?

6. Would you expect an isotope with a long half-life to be more, the same, or less radioactive than an isotope with a short half-life? Explain.

7. Compare and contrast nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.