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📅 NSB 2019🎓 HS🔄 Round 17#️⃣ Q6❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

Oak Ridge National Lab is contributing to the production of cancer radiation treatments by producing actinium-227, which undergoes two decay transitions to become the medically-useful isotope radium-223. What two types of decay does actinium-227 undergo to become radium-223?

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