Instructions: In this task you will be given a passage and a yes/no question based on the passage. You should answer the question using the information from the passage.
Input: passage: The curium-242 isotope was produced in July--August 1944 by bombarding Pu with -particles to produce curium with the release of a neutron:
question: curium-242 was synthesized by bombarding an isotope with alpha particles?
Output:
Yes