How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Different Types of Radiation
helium has two protons and two neutrons. Do you know what else has two proton on the periodic table? Oxygen. And then there's also gamma particles which are not gamma particles, I should walk that back. There's also gamma radiation. But so it's like kind of big compared to some other types of radiation because it's essentially the same size as an atom. Okay. We'll talk about that first is what happens when an atom loses so-called alpha particles.
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