Sustainable Energy
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781337551663
Author: DUNLAP, Richard A.
Publisher: Cengage,
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Chapter 5, Problem 5P
What are the decay products of the β– decay of the following nuclides:
3H, 14C, 64Cu, and 125Sn?
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