Neutron emission

• What happens to the nucleus during neutron emission?

  Neutron emission is a decay process where one or more neutrons are ejected from a nucleus.
• As only one or more neutrons are lost the atom does not transmute into a different element but becomes a different isotope of the original element.
• What is an isotope?

  An isotope is a variant of an element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons in its nucleus.