Why radioactive elements produce their own heat?

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is this physics ? chemistry? idk :3

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Radioactive elements are radioactive because they undergo radioactive decay, this decay causes them to break apart and change form in someway. These changes release a bit of energy and that energy is expressed as heat, and various forms of radiation.

Heat is simply the average kinetic energy all the particles in a system.

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