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Lynna [10]
3 years ago
15

Which describes radioactive decay of a substance?

Physics
1 answer:
Margarita [4]3 years ago
4 0
Radioactive decay is the loss of elementary particles from an unstable nucleus, ultimately changing the unstable element into another more stable element. There are five types of radioactive decay: alpha emission, beta emission, positron emission, electron capture, and gamma emission.
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