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The Neutron

In Our Time: Science

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Why do some elements become radioactive when neutrons are fired at them? It is taking something that is in its normal state stable and then destabilizing it by adding the neutron. The nucleus then will rearrange to get back to the bottom of the valley, and how does it do that? And that is what we call radioactivity.

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