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You are probably thinking of changes to a nucleus in nuclear reactions. This can be during radioactive decay, a nucleus emitting an alpha or beta particle is transmuted to another nucleus which defines it as a different element. Also during nuclear fission the nuclei of uranium or plutonium are split up and hence become other elements

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