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Title: Balancing a nuclear reaction
Post by: Sona on April 12, 2017, 10:51:47 AM

₁₅P³² = ₁₆S³⁶ + β + A

I have to find out what is A.

Now β emission causes ₁₆S³². But how the mass number can be balanced? Is there any particle having negative mass number?

Title: Re: Balancing a nuclear reaction
Post by: mjc123 on April 12, 2017, 11:41:52 AM

I think your question must have a misprint; it should be ₁₆S³². See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus-32