What Is Required for a Nuclear Transmutation to Occur

question 118

Multiple Choice

What is required for a nuclear transmutation to occur?

• A)very high temperature
• B)a corrosive environment
• C)a particle to collide with a nucleus or neutron
• D)spontaneous nuclear decay
• E)gamma emission

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Definitions:

Transformation

An operation that moves or changes a geometric figure in some way to produce a new figure.

Reflection

A process or transformation that maps a figure to its mirror image across a specified axis.

Compounded

The process of calculating interest on both the initial principal and the accumulated interest from previous periods.

Principal

The original amount of money on which interest is calculated.