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Home » Class 9 » Structure of an atom » Discovery of Neutron

Discovery of Neutron

Last Updated on July 3, 2023 By Mrs Shilpi Nagpal

Question 1 Name the scientist who discovered neutrons?

Question 2 Which subatomic particle is not present in an ordinary hydrogen atom?

Question 3 What is a neutron?

Question 4 What is the charge and mass of an electron?

Question 5 State the location of neutrons in an atom?

Discovery of neutron

After the discovery of electrons and protons,it was noticed that all mass of an atom cannot be accounted for on the basis of only protons and electrons.Then the neutrons were discovered.

Chadwick in 1932 discovered another subatomic particle called neutron.
Neutron is present inside the nucleus.
Hydrogen atom does not contain any nucleus.

Characteristics of neutron
1)The mass of neutron is equal to mass of proton.The relative mass of neutron is 1 u and absolute mass is 1.6749 x 10-27 kg.

2)Neutron has no charge.

Filed Under: Class 9, Structure of an atom Tagged With: chadwick, characteristics of neutron, discovery of neutron, neutron

About Mrs Shilpi Nagpal

Author of this website, Mrs. Shilpi Nagpal is MSc (Hons, Chemistry) and BSc (Hons, Chemistry) from Delhi University, B.Ed. (I. P. University) and has many years of experience in teaching. She has started this educational website with the mindset of spreading free education to everyone.

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  1. Mejogader says

    October 26, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    The content was good but provided less knowledge than it was supposed to. I really expected more.

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