College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 29 - Conceptual Questions - Page 1115: 4

Answer

$\beta ^-$ decay

Work Step by Step

$β^–$ decay is a decay where a neutron is effectively converted into a proton and produce electron and electron anti-neutrino. Thus, a nuclide that contains too many neutrons to be stable is likely to decay via $β^–$
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