What would happen if Carbon-14 was in a molecule, and decayed into Nitrogen? [closed]








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This interested me because of Melvin Calvin's experiment with photosynthesis where he used radioactive Carbon-14. If a plant used it as a reactant to make glucose, and that Carbon-14 decayed into nitrogen, what would happen to the molecule?


