Beta rays
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Penetrating rays readily deflected by a magnetic or electricfield, emitted by radioactive substances, as radium. They consist ofnegatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same inkind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities(about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).
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