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A radioactive nucleus A undergoes a series of decays according to the following scheme:
`A oversetalphararrA_1oversetbetararrA_2 oversetalphararrA_3oversetgammararrA_4`
The mass number and atomic number of A are 180 and 72 respectively. What are these number for `A_4`.

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