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What good are neutrons?

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What good are neutrons?

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Unlike other forms of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma) neutrons can make things radioactive. By making the samples radioactive, we can find out what elements are in them by measuring the radiation they give off. This is called neutron activation analysis.

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