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during bombardement of berrilum with alpha particle the neutral radiation generated we called it neutron. why we called it neutron the photon also generated from this experiment how Chadwick sad that it is a neutron because photone is also neutral why Chadwick do not call it photon​

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By 1920, physicists knew that most of the mass of the atom was located in a nucleus at its center, and that this central core contained protons. In May 1932 James Chadwick announced that the core also contained a new uncharged particle, which he called the neutron.