Carbon-14 undergoes radioactive decay in the reaction above. determine the type of radiation emitted in this reaction and describe what is happening to the nucleus during this reaction.

B.Beta radiation is emitted in this equation because the atomic number increases (from 6 to 7). This means a neutron has decayed into a proton, which occurs by emitting an electron, 0-1e.

The atomic mass number does not change because a beta particle has a much smaller mass than the atom. The atomic number goes up because a neutron has turned into an extra proton.

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