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you are right!

QUOTE=Viceroy]This is called a beta-negative decay, in this type of decay a neutron is converted to a proton and this is accompanied by the emission of an electron and an antinutrino.

The reason for the increase in atomic number is the conversion of a neutron into a proton (as atomic number is the number of protons in an atomic nucleus)[/QUOTE]
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