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The 48 pages that link to Atomic nucleus, each with the reason it gives.

• Radioactive decayNarrower topic: Radioactive transformations occur in this central structure.

• Chemical elementBroader topic: The proton count inside this atomic core sets elemental identity.

• Nuclear fusionNarrower topic: Fusion changes nuclei rather than rearranging the electrons around them.

• ProtonNarrower topic: Protons reside in the nucleus and help determine its identity.

• Alpha decayNarrower topic: Alpha decay is a transformation of the nucleus rather than the surrounding electrons.

• Beta decayNarrower topic: Beta decay changes the composition of this bound system.

• Nuclear stabilityNarrower topic: Stability describes whether this central assembly persists or transforms.

• Bohr modelNarrower topic: The model places its positively charged center at the nucleus.

• Neutron captureNarrower topic: It is the target whose proton and neutron counts change through capture.

• Nuclear reactionNarrower topic: Nuclear reactions alter this central structure rather than the atom's electron cloud.

• Hydrogen atomNarrower topic: Hydrogen’s nucleus is a single proton, except in neutron-containing isotopes.

• Nuclear physicsBroader topic: It is the central object whose structure and behavior nuclear physics investigates.

• Alpha particleNarrower topic: Alpha particles are compact nuclei rather than complete atoms.

• Atomic massBroader topic: Nearly all atomic mass resides in the nucleus.

• RadioactivityNarrower topic: Radioactive transformations occur in this compact store of nuclear binding energy.

• Helium-4Narrower topic: Helium-4’s identity and binding arise from its four-particle nucleus.

• Carbon-12Narrower topic: Carbon-12’s six protons and six neutrons occupy its nucleus.

• NucleonNarrower topic: A nucleus is the bound many-particle system whose constituents are nucleons.

• AtomBroader topic: It holds nearly all an atom’s mass and determines its element through its proton count.

• Atomic theoryBroader topic: The nucleus accounts for nearly all atomic mass and determines nuclear charge.

• DeuteriumRelated: One proton and one neutron define deuterium’s nucleus.

• AnionRelated: An anion’s nucleus remains positively charged while its electron count increases.

• James ChadwickNarrower topic: Chadwick’s result established neutrons as a constituent of the nucleus.

• Atomic energy levelRelated: Nuclear structure contributes much smaller energy shifts and separate nuclear levels.

• Rutherford scatteringBroader topic: The nucleus is the compact source of positive charge inferred from scattering.

• Potassium-40Related: The instability of the potassium-40 nucleus drives its radioactive transformations.

• Rutherford modelBroader topic: It is the compact, positively charged center at the heart of the model.

• Coulomb barrierNarrower topic: The barrier concerns the approach of these charged nuclear cores.

• Gamma decayNarrower topic: Gamma decay occurs when this system moves between internal energy states.

• Baryonic matterRelated: Most baryonic mass in ordinary atoms resides in nuclei.

• Mass defectNarrower topic: Nuclear mass defect compares its mass with the masses of its separate nucleons.

• Geiger–Marsden experimentBroader topic: The scattering evidence showed that positive charge and most atomic mass occupy a compact center.

• Neutron activationNarrower topic: Neutron activation changes the nucleus while leaving the element’s proton count unchanged.

• Plum pudding modelBroader topic: The nucleus was the compact structure missing from Thomson’s proposed atom.

• RadionuclideRelated: Its composition and energy state determine whether a radionuclide is unstable.

• ProtiumNarrower topic: Protium’s nucleus is the simplest possible nucleus: a single proton.

• Maria Goeppert MayerNarrower topic: The shell model explains how protons and neutrons arrange themselves inside this core.

• Nuclear chemistryNarrower topic: Nuclear chemistry focuses on transformations within this part of the atom.

• Discovery of the neutronRelated: The discovery established neutrons as a second kind of nuclear constituent.

• Ben Roy MottelsonNarrower topic: Its internal structure was the subject Mottelson helped explain.

• Carbon isotopesNarrower topic: Carbon isotopes differ in the neutron count within this nucleus.

• Collective modelNarrower topic: The collective model describes the structure and motion of this many-particle system.

• Nuclear structureNarrower topic: Nuclear structure concerns the internal properties of this central atomic component.

• Rutherford scattering experimentsBroader topic: The experiments established the nucleus as the atom's concentrated center.

• Helium atomBroader topic: The helium nucleus contains two protons and, in common isotopes, one or two neutrons.

• Atomic and molecular structureBroader topic: The nucleus supplies most atomic mass and sets the positive charge around which electrons arrange.

• Nuclear technologyBroader topic: Nuclear technologies act on nuclei rather than primarily on atoms’ electron structure.

• UnquadseptiumRelated: The proposed identity of unquadseptium depends on its nuclear proton count.