Re: Lost Mass in Chemical Reactions

From: Richard Tobin (richard_at_cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: 30 Jan 2005 23:04:00 GMT

In article <sMaLd.9425$xt.5229@fed1read07>,
N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com> wrote:
>In general, the nucleus doesn't "fly apart" because a neutron strikes it.
>In general, the nucleus does in fact *bind* the neutron, and then decay
>based on the expected kinetics of a nucleus with that many neutrons.

Thanks for clarifying that.

-- Richard

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