Question

Lithium (Z = 3) has two stable isotopes 6Li and 7Li. When neutrons are bombarded on lithium sample, electrons and α-particles are ejected. Write down the nuclear process taking place.

Answer 1

Explanation:

The below reaction shows the nuclear process taking place.

       $L i 86+n \rightarrow L i 37 L i 37+n$

       $\rightarrow \mathrm{Li} 38 \rightarrow \mathrm{Be} 48+\mathrm{v}^{-}+\mathrm{e}-\mathrm{Be} 48$

       $\rightarrow \mathrm{He} 24+\mathrm{He} 24$

• In nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is measured semantically to be the method in which two nuclei, or else an atom’s or subatomic particles nucleus (such as a neutron, proton, or electron with high energy) from the atom outside, strike to create one or more nuclides that are diverse from the nuclide(s) that initiated the process (parent nuclei).
• So, an alteration of one nuclide to another will be caused by a nuclear reaction.
• When a nucleus interrelates with another particle or nucleus and they then detached without altering any nuclide’s nature, the method is simply rather mentioned as a nuclear reaction, it is mentioned as a nuclear scattering type.