Question

What is the daughter element of Carbon-14?

Answer 1

It is the isotope of an element having the atomic number 7 and is found to be around $99.6\%$ in total. It is the radioactive, and stable element having a naturally occurring source. It is formed after the radioactive decay of its parent.

Complete answer
The process of radioactive decay occurs in the parent species resulting in the formation of the daughter element. Here Carbon-14 is the parent element that undergoes the process of beta decay. The electrons are emitted in the form of the beta minus particles which leads to the conversion of one of the neutrons of the carbon atom into the proton. Thus the carbon-14 decays having a half-life of 5,700 years with atomic number 6 to be changed to the atomic number 7 forming a stable, radioactive isotope of nitrogen called Nitrogen-14. During the process of beta decay, the energy emitted by the beta particles is around 156 KeV. To detect the small number of carbon traces, a liquid scintillation counting method is used.

Additional information
-The process of beta decay occurs due to the presence of weak forces which take a long time to decay. The weak forces result in the formation of the electron by converting the nucleons (neutrons and protons).
-The example of beta decay is the capture of electrons. It is the process that occurred due to the presence of weak forces.
-When the electron is captured its protein captures the electron inside the nucleus which is then converted into a neutron and then another particle called electron neutrino is released.
-Beta-decay is of two types, Beta plus (where the neutron is formed after the conversion of proton and released the positron along with electron neutrino), and Beta minus (where the proton is formed after the conversion of a neutron and released the electron and electron antineutrino).

Note:
The process of radioactive decay of carbon results in the determination of the ages of the materials from the carboniferous period which was about 60,000 years ago. In 1949, Willard Libby developed this technique for the first time along with his colleagues. In 1960, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry.