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Nuclear Equations

Just like the equations you are familiar with from Chemistry, we can show what happen when a nucleus decays.

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1. Beta Decay and its Nuclear Equations

This is a great example of a nuclear equation that you must be familiar with: for both beta plus and beta minus decay. We can consider how a proton changes to a neutron and what happens to the quarks inside these baryons.

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