Worksheet #3: Bombardment Reactions So Far, The Equations We Have Written Have Involved Natural Radioactive Decay And Therefore Natural Transmutation (Changing Of One Element Into Another Element). However, We Have Learned To Cause Transmutation By Bombardment Of Nuclei With High-Energy Particles. Bombardment Allows Us To Prepare Hundreds Of Isotopes That Do

 

Worksheet #3: Bombardment Reactions So far, the equations we have written have involved natural radioactive decay and therefore natural transmutation (changing of one element into another element). However, we have learned to cause transmutation by bombardment of nuclei with high-energy particles. Bombardment allows us to prepare hundreds of isotopes that do not naturally exist, plus this is the method for the production of transuranium elements, all of the man-made elements that follow uranium on the periodic table. Example: Boron-10 is bombarded with a neutron yielding an alpha and another product. B+ 'n He+ Li Write nuclear equations for the following bombardment reactions. HINT: Neutron- Proton-p