Question
When deuterium and tritium nuclei fuse to produce helium, what else is produced?
- positron
- proton
- -particle
- neutron
Final Answer
(d)
Solution video
OpenStax College Physics for AP® Courses, Chapter 32, Problem 5 (Test Prep for AP® Courses)
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Video Transcript
This is College Physics Answers with Shaun Dychko. When deuterium and tritium fuse to produce helium, helium has four sub-atomic particles but there are a total of five nucleons involved in the reaction so that means there must be one more nucleon as a product and that is a neutron. The answer is (d).