Annie Jaffrey Bio â Smartasses Magazine â Annie Jaffrey (born July 20, 1989) is an American beauty, cosmetics and fashion expert. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and spent most of her teenage years in Geneva, Switzerland. Jaffrey speaks Swedish, English and French.
Beta particlesâ A beta particle is emitted during the radioactive decay of some unstable atoms. Beta particles can have either a negative charge or a positive charge and they have the same very small mass (1/2000 the mass of a neutron) regardless of charge.
Now it's time to get down to basics. The atomic number of an element, also called a proton number, tells you the number of protons or positive particles in an atom. A normal atom has a neutral charge with equal numbers of positive and negative particles. That means an atom with a neutral charge is one where the number of electrons is equal to the atomic number. Ions are atoms with extra electrons or missing electrons. When you are missing an electron or two, you have a positive charge. When you have an extra electron or two, you have a negative charge.