Key term for AQA GCSE Physics, used in Nuclear Radiation.
A type of radioactive decay in which a neutron turns into a proton and emits a high-speed electron, increasing the atomic number by 1 while the mass number remains unchanged.
beta decay appears in AQA GCSE Physics revision content for Atomic structure, especially Nuclear Radiation and Radioactive decay and nuclear radiation.
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