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Consider the following radioactive decay process:
The mass number and the atomic number of are given by:
When an alpha particle is emitted from nucleus the nucleus loses two proton and two neutrons. This means the atomic mass number decreases by 4 and the atomic number decreases by 2.
In beta decays, the mass number of the atoms remains the same, but the atomic number changes: the atomic number increases in the negative beta decay and decreases in the positive beta decay by , respectively.
In gamma decay, mass number and atomic number remains unchanged.
Step by step variation is given below:
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