Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [April 2, 2021]
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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What Are Different Kinds of Radioactivity?
Alfa decay is the nucleus basically falling apart by emitting a piece that is two protons and two neutrons. That's one kind of decay. There's another kind that is not part of the standard classification, which is the nucleus just loses a neutron. And they're all different kinds of radioactivity. Ad, they're all really quite different. When they were first discovered, people just said, oh, the nucleus fell apart and it produced radiation,. But so what are those different kinds ofRadioactivity?
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