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An electron (negative particle) and an electron neutrino (neutral particle) are released when a neutron (neutral particle) changes into a proton(positive particle) therefore in order for neutral charge to create a positive particle it also has to create a negative particle to balance it out.

As a significant amount of binding energy is released, the electron is ejected at high velocity as beta radiation while the much more massive nucleus containing the newly created proton recoils with very low velocity. The neutrino having almost no mass is ejected at almost the speed of light, but is nearly impossible to detect except by implication from the "missing momentum".

Basically beta particles are ejected from the nucleus by conservation of momentum before and after the decay event.

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