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The 17 pages that link to Electron capture, each with the reason it gives.

• Radioactive decayRelated: It competes with positron emission when a proton-rich nucleus lowers its energy.

• Neutron starRelated: It reduces pressure-supporting electrons and helps turn a collapsing core neutron-rich.

• Beta decayCompared with: It changes a proton into a neutron without emitting a positron.

• Weak interactionBroader topic: This weak process changes a proton into a neutron without emitting a positron.

• Core-collapse supernovaRelated: It removes pressure-supporting electrons from the collapsing core.

• IonizationCompared with: It changes nuclear identity and may leave an electron vacancy, unlike ordinary electron-attachment ionization.

• Electron degeneracy pressureRelated: In dense stellar matter, capture removes supporting electrons and can trigger collapse.

• Nuclear transmutationBroader topic: It lowers atomic number by one without emitting a positron.

• AnionCompared with: Despite the name, this nuclear process is distinct from ordinary anion formation.

• Decay chainRelated: It is an alternative route between neighboring nuclides with the same mass number.

• IsobarRelated: It changes atomic number without changing mass number.

• Potassium-40Related: This pathway turns potassium-40 into argon-40.

• Gamma decayCompared with: It changes nuclear composition and often leaves a daughter nucleus that subsequently emits gamma rays.

• Chien-Shiung WuRelated: Electron capture provided the decay pathway used in the Goldhaber neutrino-helicity experiment.

• Beta particleCompared with: It changes proton-neutron balance without emitting a beta particle.

• Decay energyBroader topic: Its energy release sets the energy available to neutrinos and atomic radiation.

• Free neutron decayCompared with: It changes a proton into a neutron, reversing the nucleon change in beta decay.