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  • Malgas@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    It’s not like the matter stops existing, it just stops being that specific element.

    In the case of uranium, natural decay is mostly alpha radiation, meaning that 2 neutrons and two protons are ejected as a (high energy) helium nucleus, while the parent atom becomes thorium with an atomic weight four lower (e.g. U-238—>Th-234).