KEAM 2021 Physics and Chemistry Solved Paper

(d) When a β−-particle is emitted by a nucleus, its atomic number (Z) is increases by one but mass number remains unchanged, i.e.
‌zXA

β−‌-particle ‌

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‌z+1YA+ anti-neutrino +e−
Since, Z= number of protons = number of electrons.