Atomic Structure: Discovery of the Neutron 

tyler why was it deemed the radiation was neutron

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Same with me

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It's because he's not boring. A lot of these teachers are boring af.

I feel it's more to do with the environment, your able to watch this at home or whenever you choose

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I know it's kinda late to answer but I will try to give answer as short and easy as possible. Well in late 1900 scientist were curious about what are the forces and how they interact with each other. With loads of excellent contribution of various scientist it was determined that in our universe 4 force are present i.e 1. Strong attraction force(nuclear force) , 2. Gravitational force, 3. Electromagnetic forces and last but not least is 4. Weak nuclear force. As per you question alpha particles kicked out of neutrons is because of weak nuclear force. Let me explain every element consistent of proton and neutrons, since all positive charge always repel each other so atom nucleus can't stable right??..No here comes the neutrons to save, you can think of neutrons as charge less but it also acts as cushion so that protons can stay together without rupturing the atoms nucleus. As the heavy the element goes so does the number of protons increases as well as neutrons too. Now comes the trick, there are sometimes when so much positive charge is condense into small space(atom nucleus) that it tend to become unstable due to repulsive force of proton. Since all things in the universe follows law of conservation of energy, to stabilize itself atom nucleus realease energy in form of radioactive (alpha particles, beta, or gamma). Fun fact take example of Uranium. We know Uranium have 2 major isotopes U238 and U-235. U-238 is relatively much stable than latter as it have more neutrons i.e more cushion and glue (stability), where as U-235 have 3 neutrons less and since less cushion and more positive-positive repulsive force which leads to its higher instability and high radioactive. Hope this answers your questions

@@zakcullen6124 Just to be sure, you want to know how scientist determine that given radioactive decay is by which form i.e alpha particle decay, gamma or beta? Is that your question?

If you want to know whether decaying is from alpha particle or beta. I think it will be better if you search Wilson Cloud Chamber on RU-vid, I think you will find answer of your question. It will be easier for you to watch rather than reading description analogue of mine.

@Joseph Park Naah not really there is difference for nuclear explosion you need to have sustainable instantaneous release of all energy. I will advise you to go and check out "Critical Nuclear Mass" on RU-vid or Google. You will come your answers. As far as my interest is concern, yes I have master in molecular biology and we all the time uses small radioactive isotopes to carry out study experiment. If you really want to know how molecular biologist use radioactive isotopes then I will suggest you watch experiment "Hershey-Chase Bacteriophage Experiment" as it is basic of radioactive experiment carryout inside the cell body Moreover python is great for data analysis and for its predictive method machine learning, so we try to use this to effectively collect data of amino acid and other chemical signal and try to make a predictive it's movement through python libraries.

@Joseph Park No. To cause a nuclear explosion you need a nuclear chain reaction above critical mass to reach explosive kinetics.

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Well I don't even understand the question now lel

Yess,, I also have these doubts but nobody is understanding my these doubts 😟😟

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Same doubt...

Same questions

Helium nuclei isn't neutral, it has 2 protons and 2 neutrons and needs 2 electrons so it's doubly charged .

Neutron is neutral and 2 protons will cancel out the charge of 2 electrons.Therefore making it's K shell complete and a noble gas.

Pragyan Pandey protons cancelling out means its losing its paraffin wax identity (??!) cuz proton is what that is the most fundamental particle of an atom and if it gets discharged, the wax perhaps turns into something else rather than wax. Here electrons were not shot out therefore, there won't be filling up of any K shell and turn into noble gas or something. Besides, wax is a hydrocarbon?

That's a smart question, even I wonder, how could he become so sure that it was neutron shooting out, not proton cuz proton-proton repulses and there's a very chance that if protons are shot out then it's gonna have the same action done by neutron kicking out the protons. And the second question of yours, since wax was losing its protons I think it's gonna turn into some other element or at least so like it as proton gives an atom its identity. But again, since it's a complex hydrocarbon, I can't be so sure about it and perhaps, it converts into some other hydrocarbon.

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in some texts, you can have light nuclei written over then, like helium's, carbon's or nitrogen's!

So paraffin is a long chain hydrocarbon which essentially is rich in hydrogens

i think bcoz parrafin cant show photoelectric emission when hited by electromagnetic waves

@@krishvanshknu6889 paraffin shows tracks/scratches if something massive hits it. The release of p+ was a surprise at first. the assumption was that the unknown particles would embed into the paraffin. the resulting push told us of the equivalent force being transmitted through the paraffin. apparently the energy released by the alpha collision released neutrons of very high KE, which was sufficient to eject the p+

@@njmullins Thanks for the reply! It helped me too.

Me too from India

+Mac Stringer The Alpha particles are positively charged and the radiation coming out from the boron/lithium film had no charge, therefore it couldn't be the alpha particles.

@@bellajade2438 thanks!