Everything CCEA students need to know about radioactive decay and half-life for GCSE Physics.

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

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The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay could have important implications for the study of matter and antimatter. In fact, it would confirm that neutrinos and their antiparticles (i.e ...

Left: “Mirror” nuclei lithium-8 and boron-8 undergo beta decay, then split into two alpha particles. Right: Radioactive ions from the ATLAS accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory are ...

This is called beta decay. Beta decay causes the atomic number close atomic number The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. of the nucleus to increase by one (because there is an extra ...