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How did James chadwick discover the neutron?

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He bombarded the alpha rays (coming out from a natural radioactive material) onBeryllium atom and observed that Beryllium artificially became radioactive for a short time it emitted material rays containing neutral particles having mass almost equal to proton he proposed the name Neutron for the newly discovered particle, he also observed that after short radioactivity Beryllium was converted in to Carbon,

3Be9 + 2He4 = 6C12 +0n1(neutron)

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