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What happens during radioactive decay?

answer: Parent isotopes turn into daughter isotopes

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When radioactive atoms decay, they release energy in the form of ionizing radiation (alpha particles, beta particles and/or gamma rays). The energy is called ionizing radiation because it has enough energy to knock tightly bound electrons from an atom's orbit. This causes the atom to become a charged ion.During radioactive decay, an unstable nucleus emits subatomic particles to attain stability. It may undergo transmutation to change to some other nucleus or may achieve a stable state by giving off energy in the form of photons. Radioactive decaya radioactive process in which a nucleus undergoes spontaneous transformation into one or more different nuclei and simultaneously emits radiation, loses electrons, or undergoes fission.

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