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What happens during radioactive decay?

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GenaCL600 [577]3 years ago

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When a radioactive atom undergoes a nuclear decay event (the significant decay modes are alpha decay, beta decay, electron capture, and spontaneous fission), the decaying nucleus undergoes a transformation in identity associated with the change in the number of protons in the nucleus

timama [110]3 years ago

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The answer would be A

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In this case, we can show how the empirical formula is found by following the shown below procedure:

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