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To balance these nuclear transmutation equations, we simply need to make certain that the sum of the mass numbers are the same on both sides of the equation as are the sum of the atomic numbers.
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So if we have californium colliding with boron 10, producing three neutrons, then in order to have it balanced, we've got 252 and 10, that's 262, minus 3 gives us 259.
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So we need a mass number of 259, and then we have 98 and 5, that's 103.
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There's no atomic number, so we need 103 here.
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An element 103 is lr.
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For the next one, we have deuterium, colliding with helium 3, producing helium 4.
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So we've got 2 and 3, that's 5.
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We've only got 4 here, so we need one more.
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And then we've got 1 and 2, that's 3...