There are three decay series (uranium series, thorium series and actinide series)  that include all natural radioelements with atomic number > 83. The three decay series all ended at stable isotopes of lead. Most of the radiation an average human being obtained from daily life is due to the radioactivity of these decay chains, especially due to Rn-222 from the uranium series. In addition, chronological information such as the birth times of minerals and the earth can be estimated by studying these three decay chains.    

Courses

Introductory Radiochemistry (CHEM 204), 3 credit hours

        Lecturer: Dr. Z. Chang at SCSU

 

Radioisotope Lab (PHY 313), 4 credit hours

        Lecturer: Dr. W. Abdel-Kader at SCSU

 

Ionizing Detection and Radiation Measurements Laboratory (EE&S 411/611 ),   3 credit hours

        Lecturer: Dr. R. A. Fjeld and Dr. T. A. DeVol at Clemson University

 

Special Topics on Radiochemistry (EE&S 491), 3 credit hours

        Lecturer: Dr. R. A. Fjeld and Dr. T. A. DeVol at Clemson University

 

Summer Internship on Radiochemistry, 3 credit hours

        Lecturer: Dr. M. Bronikowski in Savannah River National Laboratory

 

Senior Research Project in Radiochemistry, 3 credit hours

        Supervisor: Dr. Zheng Chang at SCSU

 

 

 

 

Tools & Links

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· Fundamental constants

 

· Energy conversion factors

 

· Concepts of Nuclear Physics

 

· A concise periodic table of the elements

 

· Wikipedia periodic table of the chemical elements

 

· Chart of the nuclides, table of the nuclides and more information about radionuclides

 

· z-table of normal distribution

 

· Student’s t-distribution table

 

· Chi-squared distribution table