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mickal555
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Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:02 pm
Joined: 12 Mar 2004
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Location: Australia
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Hello my name is michael and I was wondering what is the difference between a neutrino and neutron
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Anonymous
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Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:02 am
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A neutron is a particle found in the nucleus of the atoms of all elements except hydrogen. The atoms of different elements have a different number of neutrons. So, for example inside the nucleus of each atom of the element Helium there is only one neutron but the nucleus of each carbon atom contains 6 neutrons etc
A neutrino is a particle only produced during a radioactive decay or during the nuclear fusion process that takes place inside stars.
Both the neutron and the neutrino do not have any electrical charge but the two particles have very different masses. In fact it was only in 1998 that the neutrino was discovered to have any mass at all
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