Sentences with phrase «radioactive decay called»

For example, an electron neutrino — more precisely, an electron antineutrino — emerges when an atomic nucleus such as tritium undergoes a type of radioactive decay called «β decay» and turns into a slightly less massive helium - 3 nucleus while spitting out an electron and an antineutrino.

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In the experiment, the scientists studied the radioactive decay of an isotope called beryllium 8.

In a radioactive metamorphosis called single beta decay, a neutron (a neutral particle) in the nucleus of an unstable atom spontaneously turns into a proton (a positive particle) and emits an electron and an antineutrino — the antimatter twin of a neutrino.

Physicists had been puzzling over something called radioactive beta decay, in which one kind of atom changes into another.

The aim is to use the detector to try to observe a theoretical atomic event called neutrinoless double - beta decay — a radioactive process whereby an atomic nucleus releases two electrons and no neutrinos.

Fossil fuels lack a type of radioactive carbon, an isotope called carbon - 14, which decays over time.

Six years after the discovery of radioactivity (1896) by Henri Becquerel of France, the New Zealand - born British physicist Ernest Rutherford found that three different kinds of radiation are emitted in the decay of radioactive substances; these he called alpha, beta, and gamma rays in sequence of their ability to penetrate matter.

The original element is called the parent, and the Archaeologists use the exponential, radioactive decay of carbon 14 to estimate the death dates of organic material.

This is called radioactive decay.