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The weak nuclear force is responsible for radioactive decay. It is the force that causes Uranium to be radioactive for example.

To be a bit more technical it can also turn quarks (a type of elementary particle) into other quarks or turn a lepton (e.g. electron) into a neutrino and vice versa.

In quantum field theory it is a SU(2) (left-handed) gauge force.

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