Bombarding Atoms with Alpha Particles Is a Common Way to Synthesize

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Essay

Bombarding atoms with alpha particles is a common way to synthesize new nuclides. Ernest Rutherford produced oxygen-17 from nitrogen-14 this way in 1919. Write a balanced reaction equation for this synthesis.

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