Question

What happens in the artificial transmutation of an element? Included an example.

Answer 1

In an artificial transmutation an element is transformed into another element by being shot by another element or particle. For example if you shoot an alpha particle like Helium at Nitrogen then you transform the Nitrogen into an oxygen and you get Hydrogen as a By-product

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

In an artificial transmutation, atoms of one element are artificially made to strike other particles with in an accelerator. Usually in an Artificial transmutation, there are particle accelerators that bombard the elements with in them using alpha particles, deuterons etc.

This bombarding causes lodging of certain elements into the targeted nucleus, thereby forming a new and a different element.

For example -

In the first artificial transmutation, Helium nucleus was bombarded on nitrogen nucleus thereby producing new nuclei and a proton.