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Nuclide X decays to nuclide Y with the emission of two $α$ -particles and one $β$ -particle. What is the composition of nuclide Y?

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$X \to Y + α + β_{Z} X^{A} \to Y +_{2} α^{4} +_{- 1} β^{0} Y \to_{Z + 1} X^{A + 4}$

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