Assertion: atom's nucleus | /r/CapableOf | absorb one neutron
Facets:
value: readily
type: MANNER
value: merely
type: MANNER
value: apiece
type: MANNER
value: to produce the radioactive isotope
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Indeed, the 238U nucleus can absorb one neutron to produce the radioactive isotope uranium-239.
text: If no additional energy is supplied by any other mechanism, the nucleus will not fission, but will merely absorb the neutron, as happens when U-238 absorbs slow and even some fraction of fast neutrons, to become U-239.
text: The most notable nuclear properties of hafnium are its high thermal neutron capture cross section and that the nuclei of several different hafnium isotopes readily absorb two or more neutrons apiece.