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∙ 12y agoThere are actually more than 4 mechanisms involved.
The primary four, that most of us know, are alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron.
Alpha is a subset of a larger set of fission processes. There is also internal conversion, proton emission, double proton emission, spontaneous fission, cluster decay, electron capture, double beta decay, double electron capture, electron capture with positron emission, double positron emission, bound state beta decay, and isomeric transition.
And, while we are on the topic, gamma is actually a photon emission from an excited nucleus when it comes down from an excited state. The corresponding interaction for the electron cloud is an x-ray. It not really a decay process, its a consequence of a decay process.
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∙ 13y agoAlpha, beta and gamma are the three main types of radioactive decay.
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∙ 11y agotitanium, radium and magnisum
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