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Chemical Kinetics

Question

In the transformation of $straight U presubscript 92 presuperscript 238 space to space straight U presubscript 92 presuperscript 234$ , if one emission is an α-particle, what should be the other emission(s)?

Two β^–

Two β^– and one β⁺

One β^– and one γ

One β⁺ and one β^–

Solution

Two β^–

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