Is nuclear reaction a chemical reaction?
Nuclear reactions occur in uranium and other naturally radioactive substances, and these substances are rated as chemicals. But their nuclear activity is very different from the chemical reactions in a burning candle. However, dynamic nuclear reactions can cause ordinary and extraordinary chemical reactions to occur in other substances. Weird wizards of long ago mixed medicinal magic from plants and dreamed of a fountain of youth to cure all human ills. They also dreamed of fulfilling all human wants by transmuting common lead into precious gold. They staged shadowy experiments with lots of mystifying mumbo jumbo, but their dreams could not be realized. Those abracadabra alchemists of the Middle Ages worked with chemicals. They failed because they did not know the ABC’s of the science of chemistry. Our modern chemists are making some of their impossible dreams come true. The basic ABC’s of chemistry were fathomed in the 19th century. Atoms of the chemical elements were sifted and sorte
