Rutherford bombarded nitrogen gas with alpha particles, causing some of the nitrogen to change into oxygen by a process of

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Hudson Orozco

23 December, 07:22

Rutherford bombarded nitrogen gas with alpha particles, causing some of the nitrogen to change into oxygen by a process of

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Maribel Dean · Answer 1

Ernest Rutherford’s idea of bombarded nitrogen gas with alpha particles causing some of the nitrogen to change into oxygen is a process called Transmutation. Transmutation is the switch of one species to another. Because of his experiments he became the father of nuclear physics.