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This is what your screen should look like. start with Hydrogen -1 and drag 2 neutrons over the to the nucleus. What happens to the Hydrogen-1 atom? See picture in comments

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A tritium is produced.

Step-by-step explanation:

Combining two additional neutrons to the nucleus of the hydrogen atom makes it a tritium, Hydrogen-3.

neutron is designated ¹₀n; this shows a mass number of 1 and no atomic number

Hydrogen-1 is designated as ₁¹H; a mass number of 1 and atomic number of 1. This particle is actually more like a proton.

Combining both:

₁¹H + 2¹₀n → ³₁H

This is a nuclear reaction and in balancing such reaction equation, mass numbers and atomic numbers must be conserved.

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