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Enter a balanced nuclear equation for the production of lutetium-177, used in the treatment of some cancers, from the beta decay of ytterbium-177.

Sagot :

Answer: [tex]_{70}^{177}\textrm{Yb}\rightarrow _{71}^{177}\textrm{Lu}+_{-1}^{0}\textrm{e}[/tex]

Explanation:

Beta-decay: In this process, a neutron gets converted into a proton and an electron releasing a beta-particle. The beta particle released is basically a electron with -1 charge and no mass.

[tex]_Z^A\textrm{X}\rightarrow _{Z+1}^A\textrm{X}+_{-1}^{0}\textrm{e}[/tex]

General representation of an element is given as:  

where,

Z represents Atomic number

A represents Mass number

X represents the symbol of an element

[tex]_{70}^{177}\textrm{Yb}\rightarrow _{71}^{177}\textrm{Lu}+_{-1}^{0}\textrm{e}[/tex]

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