Question

What is the daughter element of carbon-14?

Answer 1

Answer:

When C-14 undergoes radioactive decay, atoms of N-14 are formed.

Explanation:

Carbon-14 undergoes the process of beta decay. The release of the beta minus particle (electron emission) causes one of the neutrons of the carbon atom to be converted into a proton.

This causes the atomic number (number of protons) to be changed from six to seven.

The first 2:30 of this video discuss the beta decay of C-14 and gives more details about why this nuclear process forms atoms of nitrogen.

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