When Uranium-238 decays, it emits 8 alpha particles and 6 beta particles before finally becoming stable daughter product; what is the atomic number and mass number of the daughter product? Show your work.
(Geology; Geologic time)

When this radioactive atom emits 8 alpha particles then its atomic weight is decreased by 8*4=32units and the atomic number is decreased by 8*2=16 unit.As a result the newly formed daughter atom have an atomic weight of 206 dalton and atomic number of 76 units.

Now the newly formed daughter atom emits 6 beta particle then its atomic weight will remain unchanged but the atomic number will be increased by 6 units.As a result final atom will have an atomic weight of 206 dalton and atomic number 82.

When Uranium-238 decays, it emits 8 alpha particles and 6 beta particles before finally becoming stable daughter product; what is the atomic number and mass number of the daughter product? Show your work. (Geology; Geologic time)

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When Uranium-238 decays, it emits 8 alpha particles and 6 beta particles before finally becoming stable daughter product; what is the atomic number and mass number of the daughter product? Show your work.
(Geology; Geologic time)