In artificial transmutations the nucleus is bombarded with high-energy (kinetics energy) particles to induce transmutation. There are two reactants or the nucleus that is being bombarded and the high-energy particle.
High-energy particles are accelerated in accelerators, by the application of electric and magnetic fields. Neutrons cannot be accelerated in accelerators using electric and magnetic fields because their charge is 0.
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