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PRONUNCIATION OF BETA DECAY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BETA DECAY

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Beta decay is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BETA DECAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Beta decay

In nuclear physics, beta decay is a type of radioactive decay in which a beta particle is emitted from an atomic nucleus. Beta decay is a process which allows the atom to obtain the optimal ratio of protons and neutrons. Beta decay is mediated by the weak force. There are two subtypes of beta decay: beta minus and beta plus. Beta minus decay produces an electron, while beta plus decay results in the emission of a positron and is therefore referred to as positron emission. An example of electron emission is shown when carbon-14 decays into nitrogen-14: 14 6C → 14 7N + e− + ν e Notice how, in electron emission, an electron antineutrino is also emitted. In this form of decay, the original element has decayed into a new element with an unchanged mass number A but an atomic number Z that has increased by one. An example of positron emission is shown with magnesium-23 decaying into sodium-23: 23 12Mg → 23 11Na + e+ + ν e In contrast to electron emission, positron emission is accompanied by the emission of an electron neutrino.

Definition of beta decay in the English dictionary

The definition of beta decay in the dictionary is the radioactive transformation of an atomic nucleus accompanying the emission of an electron. It involves unit change of atomic number but none in mass number Also called: beta transformation, beta process.

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Synonyms and antonyms of beta decay in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «beta decay» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BETA DECAY

Find out the translation of beta decay to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of beta decay from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «beta decay» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

β衰变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desintegración beta
570 millions of speakers

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beta decay
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीटा क्षय
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Translator English - Arabic

تسوس بيتا
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Translator English - Russian

бета-распад
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decaimento beta
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Translator English - Bengali

বিটা ক্ষয়
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Translator English - French

désintégration bêta
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Translator English - Malay

Kerosakan beta
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Translator English - German

beta-Zerfall
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Translator English - Japanese

ベータ崩壊
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Translator English - Korean

베타 붕괴
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Translator English - Javanese

Beta rusak
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phân rã beta
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Translator English - Tamil

பீட்டா சிதைவு
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Translator English - Marathi

बीटा किडणे
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Translator English - Turkish

Beta çözünürlüğü
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Translator English - Italian

decadimento beta
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Translator English - Polish

rozpad beta
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Translator English - Ukrainian

бета - розпад
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Translator English - Romanian

dezintegrare beta
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βήτα διάσπαση
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Translator English - Afrikaans

betaverval
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betasönderfall
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Translator English - Norwegian

betastråling
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BETA DECAY»

Discover the use of beta decay in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beta decay and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beta Decay for Pedestrians
In this graduate-level text, Harry J. Lipkin presents simply, but without oversimplification, the aspects of beta decay that can be understood without reference to the formal theory; that is, the reactions that follow directly from ...
Harry J. Lipkin, 2012
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A Search for Two-neutrino Double Beta Decay of Tellurium-130 ...
This is followed by a detailed description of the Bolometric Technique of detecting particles and radiation, and its direct application to betabeta-decay.
Iulian Catalin Bandac, 2006
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Seventy Years of Double Beta Decay: From Nuclear Physics to ...
This book presents the breathtaking manner in which achievements in particle physics have been made from a nuclear physics process.
Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, 2010
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Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911-1934
The book describes in detail the considerable efforts by theoretical and experimental physicists to understand the beta spectra of atomic nuclei.
Carsten Jensen, Finn Aaserud, 2000
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Beta Decay Studies of Neutron-rich Aluminum-30,31 and ...
In addition to the study of 30Al, 31Al was also produced following the beta decay of 31Mg in the fragmentation of 140 MeV/AMU 48Ca.
Trisha Hinners, 2008
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Neutron Interactions in the CUORE Neutrinoless Double Beta ...
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0nuDBD) is a lepton-number violating process that can occur only for a massive Majorana neutrino.
Michelle Jean Dolinski, 2008
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Basic Ideas and Concepts in Nuclear Physics: An Introductory ...
They proposed a number of experiments on beta decays and hyperon and meson decays which would provide the necessary evidence for parity conservation or nonconservation. In beta decay, one could measure the angular distribution of ...
K. Heyde, 2004
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Radioactivity And Radioactive Decay
BETA-DECAY. 3.1 INTRODUCTION There are three modes of beta radioactivity: negatron (p~) emission, orbital electron capture and positron (p+) emission. Negatron emission is much more common than the other decay processes. Beta rays ...
D.K. Jha, 2004
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Search for the Second-forbidden Beta Decay of Boron-8
In this work, we present our results of the first published attempt to measure the transition rate for 8B(2+) → 8Be(0+) decay using a radioactive 8B beam.
Minesh K. Bacrania, 2006
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Cryogenic Particle Detection
Beta Decay Experiments E. Fiorini Dipartimento G.P.S. Occhialini dell'Universita' di Milano Bicocca and Sezione di Milano, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano ( Italy) ettore . f ioriniQmib . inf n . it Abstract. One of the main problems to be ...
Christian Enss, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BETA DECAY»

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ORNL Researchers Dudney, Love, Radford Named Corporate Fellows
He leads ORNL's role in the Majorana Demonstrator Project to study the feasibility of a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in ... «Newswise, Jul 15»
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The Experiment That Overturned A Basic Law of Physics
Cobalt 60 is an isotope that decays by beta particle emission, and Dr. Wu was also an expert on beta decay. The extremely low temperatures ... «io9, Jul 15»
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How do you solve a puzzle like neutrinos?
In neutrinoless double beta decay, a particle would decay into electrons and neutrinos, but the neutrinos would annihilate one another within ... «Symmetry magazine, Jun 15»
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The Usefulness of Learning Through Observation
When Richard Feynman, the brilliant physicist, was working on a new theory of beta decay he noticed something surprising. For years, experts ... «LifeHacker India, Jun 15»
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Majorana turns on
To figure this out, Marjorana is on the hunt for neutrinoless double-beta decay, a currently purely theoretical type of radioactive decay that's ... «Black Hills Pioneer, Jun 15»
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The story of Neptunium's discovery
Through further experimentation, McMillan was able to conclude that a decay product of 239U by beta decay was producing atoms of a new ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
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Project 8 Scientists Detect Frequency of Radiation for Individual …
Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) measures the energy distribution of electrons emitted from tritium beta decay with more ... «Daily Nexus, May 15»
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Researchers make precise measurements of the half-lives of …
Under those extreme neutron-rich conditions, atomic nuclei absorb neutrons to become increasingly heavy, and then undergo beta decay, ... «Phys.Org, May 15»
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Device measures radiation from 1 electron
... a radioactive isotope that produces electrons as its nuclei undergo beta decay. Electrons from the radioactive decay move extremely fast, ... «Futurity: Research News, May 15»
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Towards the realization of a global neutrino infrastructure
Finally, there is a rich and diverse physics program in the development of single beta and neutrino-less double beta decay experiments ... «Interactions.org, Apr 15»

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