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How would the forces in a nucleus change if the number of neutral particles in the nucleus were increased?
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The neutral particles, or neutrons, in an atomic nucleus, increase the attractive force (the strong nuclear force) operating in that nucleus. Neutrons are the glue of the nucleus, they hold it together. Remember that the protons, all of which have positive charges, repel each other.
I would like to add that sometimes a heavy nucleus such as U235 will decay when it absorbs a neutron, which is not what you might expect based on my claim that a neutron helps to hold the nucleus together. This happens because the decay products, the daughter isotopes, jointly are more stable than the original isotope. So, you can make a nucleus more stable, but also create the possibility of a still more stable arrangement of daughter isotopes. Adding a neutron means that you have more neutrons with which to assemble other nuclei, from the existing collection of nucleons. And even when an existing nucleus is stable, the phenomenon of quantum tunneling allows it to change to an even more stable state of daughter isotopes.
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well as my theory is the particles get farther apart
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The protons
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What do you think are the change of the alpha particles directly hitting the nucleus
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Neutrons.
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That wasn't even an answer! The answer to the question is this: Chadwick concluded that the particles produced by his experiment were neutral in charge because a charged object did not deflect their path.
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Protons have a positive charge, neutrons are neutral, and electrons have a negative charge.
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It is increased by a factor of 2
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How does the electric potential energy between two charged particles change if one particles charge is increased by a factor of two?
It is increased by a factor of 2
What are the particles called Radioactive elements release energy?
Nucleus that causes a neutron to change into a proton is called a beta particle.
What is the difference between neutron and a electorns?
The difference between neutron are neutral, and electrons have a negative change too them. Neutron is a neutral particle that exists in the nucleus of an atom. The year when the neutron was founded was 1932.
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