Chemistry GCSE
Discovery of the neutron
What Discovery of the neutron means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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James Chadwick conducted experiments that yielded evidence for a previously undiscovered subatomic particle, which had a relative mass of 1 but carried no electrical charge.
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