Talk:Neutron

====Discovery==== The original concept of the atom was a raison pudding concept where the atom was a pudding where electrons were imbedded in the mass of the pudding. This was destroyed by alpha particle deflection experiments showing that the alpha particle was not deflected by a lot of little charges but rather by a strong force of repulsion exerted by the protons of the nucleus as the alpha particle got close, and that the electrons with small mass were brushed out of the way of the process. However the total mass of the protons was only half the amount of mass needed to explain this process. This was corrected in 1932 when Chadwick reported the emission, and therefore the existence within the nucleus of a third component of the atom, named the neutron which had almost the same mass as the proton, but did not have an electric charge. Thus the 3 main constituents of the atom are the protons, an equal number of electrons and a varying number of neutrons. Also since electrons are addable or removable from atoms, by an electrostatic or electrochemical charge changing making process, it is possible for an atom to have a net electrostatic charge or become an ionized particle in a solution. WFPMWFPM (talk) 04:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

=====Utility==== Besides being an integral part of the stable atomic nucleus, scientists have learned that the neutron would break off from a broken (fissioned) atom and become an individual mass particle, which could be accumulated and manaqed so as to be the active mass particle in a process of nuclear nuclear fission that lead to the creation of both the atomic bomb and to heat energy generating nuclear power plants. -------- ====Further Research==== Further Research has led to the concept that both the neutron and the proton are not pointlike particles of the atom but are individual accumulations of their own components. Both are supposedly made up of Quarks and Gluons which can be interchanged by subatomic processes to allow them to change into each other as part of the process of the creation of the atom. WFPMWFPM (talk) 10:13, 27 October 2008 (UTC)Reply