The top three U.S. exports to China in 2008 were electrical machinery ($9.5 billion), oil seeds and related products ($9.3 billion), and nuclear reactors and related machinery ($8.4 billion). China is now one of the most important markets for U.S. exports: in 2009, U.S. exports to China totaled $69.6 billion, a 0.2% decrease from 2008. Those percentages were down far less than U.S. exports to other major trading partners in the year following the global financial crisis.
Return to questions. 1) A positively charged particle made up of two protons and two neutrons and released by a radioactive nucleus is the alpha particle. 2) An electron released by a radioactive nucleus that causes a neutron to change into a proton is called a beta particle.3) The amount of time for half the atoms in a radioactive sample to decay is called the half-life.eturn to questions. 1) A positively charged particle made up of two protons and two neutrons and released by a radioactive nucleus is the alpha particle. 2) An electron released by a radioactive nucleus that causes a neutron to change into a proton is called a beta particle.
Beta decay occurs when the nucleus emits an electron or positron and a neutrino, in a process that changes a proton to a neutron or the other way about. The nucleus may capture an orbiting electron, causing a proton to convert into a neutron in a process called electron capture.lpha decay occurs when the nucleus ejects an alpha particle (helium nucleus). This is the most common process of emitting nucleons, but in rarer types of decays, nuclei can eject protons, or in the case of cluster decay specific nuclei of other elements.