Rutherford was the first person to artificially transmute one element into another…
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Problem
13. Rutherford was the first person to artificially transmute one element into another (nitrogen to oxygen). A nuclear equation for his reaction could be written as follows:
24He+714N→817O+?
The unknown particle in the above equation is
(A) a proton
(B) a neutron
(C) an electron
(D) an alpha particle