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The emission of energy to produce ionizing radiation is known as radioactive decay. Alpha, beta particles, and gamma rays are examples of ionizing radiation that could be released. Radioactive decay happens in radionuclides, which are imbalanced atoms. T…

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The radioactivity can be simply referred to as particle emission from nuclei due to the nuclear instability. There are different types of radiation such as alpha, beta and gamma radiation. Along with these there are different types of decay as well.

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Chapter 31, Problem 19PE

In the following eight problems, write the complete decay equation for the given nuclide in the complete X Z A N notation. Refer to the periodic table for values of Z.

β ⁺ decay of ⁵⁰Mn.

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