Carbon-14 decays via beta emission.
C-dating application of radio isotope 14C emits
Asked in WBCS Main Paper 4 2022 · Topic: Nuclear Physics (Radioactivity: Alpha, Beta (Fermi theory, selection rules, parity violation), Gamma decay (multipole transitions, internal conversion).)
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