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426 + 238 = 664
A very unlikely type of decay.Plutonium is found as isotopes with atomic weights in the range 238 to 244. Your equation seems to involve plutonium with another 39-78 neutrons! Making it an extremely unlikely (if not impossible) isotope.A very unlikely type of decay.Plutonium is found as isotopes with atomic weights in the range 238 to 244. Your equation seems to involve plutonium with another 39-78 neutrons! Making it an extremely unlikely (if not impossible) isotope.A very unlikely type of decay.Plutonium is found as isotopes with atomic weights in the range 238 to 244. Your equation seems to involve plutonium with another 39-78 neutrons! Making it an extremely unlikely (if not impossible) isotope.A very unlikely type of decay.Plutonium is found as isotopes with atomic weights in the range 238 to 244. Your equation seems to involve plutonium with another 39-78 neutrons! Making it an extremely unlikely (if not impossible) isotope.
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194 + 44 = 238
122+58+58 is equal to 238.
Alpha decay
This is an alpha decay.
This is an example of alpha decay.
Alpha
This is a nuclear reaction where uranium-238 and thorium-234 undergo a series of decays resulting in the production of helium-4. This process is part of the natural radioactive decay chain of uranium and thorium isotopes in Earth's crust.
Uranium 238 is transformed in thorium 234 by alpha decay.
This is an alpha decay.The half-life of uranium-238 is 4,468.10ex.9 years.
What is missing is the type of decay that occurs during the transformation. For example, uranium-238 decays into thorium-234 through alpha decay, so the missing component would be the emission of an alpha particle in the balanced equation.
Alpha
The decay equation for uranium-238 (U-238) decaying into an alpha particle (helium-4) can be represented as follows: (^{238}{92}\text{U} \rightarrow ^{4}{2}\text{He} + ^{234}_{90}\text{Th}). This equation shows the radioactive decay process of U-238 into an alpha particle and thorium-234.
All radioactive isotopes decay because they are unstable; uranium-238 decay to thorium-234 by beta (-) decay. The half life of 238U is very great: 4,468.109 years.
In the uranium series, 4n + 2 represents the decay process of uranium-238 (238U) where it undergoes alpha decay to form thorium-234 (234Th) by emitting an alpha particle. The equation indicates that for every 1 decay of uranium-238, 1 thorium-234 and 2 alpha particles are produced.