How do you write the nuclear equation of the 'annihilation of beta particles to form radiation'?

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How do you write the nuclear equation of the 'annihilation of beta particles to form radiation'?

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Answer 1 · 2018-07-22T19:11:00

Annihilation just means the destruction of particles that have nonrelativistic mass. This occurs when a particle and antiparticle collide. Likely the example you are looking for is the annihilation of an electron ( $_{- 1}^{0} e$ $""_(-1)^(0) e$ ) by a positron ( $_{+ 1}^{0} e$ $""_(+1)^(0) e$ ):

$_{- 1}^{0} e +_{+ 1}^{0} e \to 2_{0}^{0} γ$ $""_(-1)^(0) e + ""_(+1)^(0) e -> 2""_(0)^(0) gamma$

This forms 2 gamma ray photons, $_{0}^{0} γ$ $""_(0)^(0) gamma$ . Here we observe

conservation of charge
conservation of particles

The net charge remains $0$ $0$ , and the net number of particles remains $2$ $2$ . The photons have no nonrelativistic mass.

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