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Radioactive decay and half-life - CCEADecay equation

Radioactivity was first noticed by French physicist, Henri Becquerel, in 1896, when he observed that some photographic plates which had been stored close to a uranium compound had become partly exposed or 鈥榝ogged鈥.

Part of Combined ScienceAtomic and nuclear physics

Decay equation

Question

Complete the following decay equation:

\(_{86}^{226}\textrm{Ra}\rightarrow_{Z}^{A}+_{2}^{4}\textrm{He}\)

Question

Polonium-210 decays to lead-206. Polonium (Po) has atomic number 84 and lead (Pb) has atomic number 82.

Which type of decay occurs?