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Next Video Embed Share. A nucleus contains most of an atom's mass and is tiny compared with the entire atom. Please enter your institutional email to check if you have access to this content. Not so easy for 2 protons because it is much harder for the strong interaction to overcome the electromagnetic repulsion. That's why most of the times you have as many neutrons in a nucleus as protons.
Here we should also talk about spin statistics and particles being fermions or bosons. Bosons e. Neutron and proton are not identical particles; they stick together and form a boson with an integer spin, and then you can have as many such coupled particles as you want in a nucleus because all of them would be bosons in a condensate.
But actually, there is also a limit, because at some point the short-ranged stong interaction starts to give in to the long-ranged electromagnetic repulsion, and you won't be able to have too large nuclei. That's why the table of chemical elements is finite. Follow-up on this answer.
Related Questions. Still Curious? Why does the nucleus have neutron in it instead of electron , I mean there is a force of attraction between opposite charges so it would be easy for a proton to be with an electron than a neutron , so why didn't it happen?
But we can? Thomas Baumann of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University and his collaborators have now pushed these measurements to new extremes. They fired a beam of high-energy calcium ions into a sheet of tungsten, producing new elements.
Among them, neutron-rich versions of aluminium and magnesium could be spotted in the few milliseconds before they decayed. The researchers found an isotope of magnesium with 28 neutrons magnesium? That's bigger than the previous heaviest magnesium isotope found, which had 26 neutrons. There doesn't seem to be a version of magnesium with 27 neutrons. That fits with the prevailing idea that neutron-rich isotopes with even numbers of both protons and neutrons are more stable than those with odd numbers, because the combinations gain stability from the formation of pairs.
Surprisingly, the team found evidence for isotopes of aluminium which has 13 protons with both 29 and 30 neutrons. That takes the drip line at aluminium farther out than was expected, and means that aluminium, with odd numbers of both neutrons and protons, is stable.
This new view of stability implies that the drip line for aluminium may extend all the way to nuclei with 34 neutrons, although these isotopes haven't been seen. As well as testing nuclear theory, Sherrill says that the results might teach us something about neutron stars: super-dense bodies formed by the collapse of some stars that have exhausted their nuclear fuel.
In neutron-rich nuclei, the protons tend to clump in the middle, so that the nuclear surface is almost pure neutrons? You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan.
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