Nitrogen-9 decays by first emitting one proton, generating carbon-8, then two protons, generating beryllium-6, and finally two more protons, with the resulting residue of a stable alpha particle. This ...

With five more protons than should be stable, the newly discovered nitrogen-9 isotope sits right on the borderline of physical possibility. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Irradiating ammonia – which is made up of one nitrogen and three hydrogens – with ultraviolet light causes one hydrogen to dissociate from the ammonia. SLAC researchers used an ultrafast “electron ...