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The emission of a Beta particle has the effect of decaying a neutron into a proton and an electron. This increases the atomic number and the electron is ejected energetically. The number of neutrons are decreased by one and the number of protons increase by one, changing the atom to a different element.

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A negative beta emission will result in a larger atomic number (+1). A neutron is essentially the quarks of an electron and proton averaged, beta emmisions are electrons taken from neutrons resulting the creation of a proton thus increasing the atomic number by one.

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The mass number (protons + neutrons) remains he same but the atomic number (proton or electron number) increases by one

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