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Beta Decay Rates Changing by Ionization?
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[QUOTE="mfb, post: 6015097, member: 405866"] Technically all beta- decay rates are influenced by this, but for most nuclei the influence is completely negligible. Re-187 with its extremely small decay energy is a notable exception. While it can decay normally this is a very rare process. If you remove electrons it can do a bound-state decay where the produced electron stays in the atom, this process is much more common then. Dysprosium-163 has this even more pronounced: As neutral atom it is stable, but if you remove its electrons it becomes radioactive. Beryllium-7 is the opposite: It can decay only via electron capture. Remove all the electrons and it becomes stable. It has not enough energy for a beta+ decay. These are very exotic examples. [/QUOTE]
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