Blissful_Altruism

Blissful_Altruism t1_ja0e8sn wrote

> Rutherford had found out that the nucleus of the nitrogen atom could be disintegrated by firing fast alpha particles into nitrogen. He asked Blackett to use a cloud chamber to find visible tracks of this disintegration, and by 1925, he had taken 23,000 photographs showing 415,000 tracks of ionized particles. Eight of these were forked, and this showed that the nitrogen atom-alpha particle combination had formed an atom of fluorine, which then disintegrated into an isotope of oxygen 17 and a proton.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett

It is 100% possible but is an extremely, very very rare occurrence.

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