Question

What is meant by nuclear reaction or artificial transmutation

Answer 1

❤️ Artificial Transmutation of Elements. The conversion of one element into another by artificial means, i.e., bymeans of bombarding with some fundamental particles, is known asartificial transmutation.

❤️ The phenomenon was first applied on nitrogen whose nucleus was bombarded with a-particles to produce oxygen.

Answer 2

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is semantically considered to be the process in which two nuclei, or else a nucleus of an atom and a subatomic particle from outside the atom, collide to produce one or more nuclides that are different from the nuclide that began the process.