Question

Nickel-63 decays by beta decay. 63/28 Ni ----------> + 0/-1 e

Answer 1

Nickel-63 decays by beta decay

Explanation:

Of explosives and electronic equipment such as the voltage regulators and surge protection, nickel-63 is used. It is utilized for explosive detection in an electron capture detector which uses radioactive source electrons.

Beta minus emissions reduces it. The equation for the decay is: the number of atomic masses is unchanged and the number of atoms is one (because a neutron has been transformed into a proton).

Beta plus decay occurs as a proton becomes a neutron, producing a positron.