It was Enrico Fermi who discovered that when a radioactive substance such as uranium is bombarded by neutrons, it produces by-products that are not uranium, and are lighter than the original sample. In 1935, he bombarded uranium- which is considered to be element 92- with neutrons, and produced what appeared to be element 93 and […]
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