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Question
What is meant by radioactivity?
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Solution
Elements with a high atomic number such as uranium, thorium, radium have a property of spontaneously emitting invisible, highly penetrating and high energy radiation. This property is called radioactivity. The nucleus of radioactive elements is unstable.
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