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beta-delayed alpha emission

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  • decay of beryllium-7
    In radioactivity: Special beta-decay processes

    …electron decay from lithium-8 are beta-delayed alpha emission, because ground as well as excited states of beryllium-8 are unstable with respect to breakup into two alpha particles. Another example, sodium-20 (20Na) to give successively neon-20 (20Ne; the asterisk again indicating the short-lived intermediate state) and finally oxygen-16 is listed below:

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