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<span>disproportionation is a type of redox reaction in which an element can undergo both oxidation and reduction.
Let's take a look at the choices:
First we have the oxide ion. Oxide ion has a charge of -2 which is the lowest charge that an oxygen atom can have. Therefore, an oxide ion cannot be further reduced, so this choice is not correct.
Next we have the peroxide ion. The oxygen has a charge of -1 which means it can be further reduced. So, this choice is acceptable
Last but not least, we have the superoxide ion. The oxygen has a charge of -1/2 which means it can be further reduced. So, this choice is also acceptable.
Based on this, we have two accepted choices which are b and c.</span>
The correct answer is actually
D. requires a lot of energy to become hot.
As the definition of specific heat is "the heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by a given amount."
What happens in the artificial transmutation is that the nucleous is bombarded with high energy particles which we can describe as kinetic energy and the idea for them is to induce what we call transmutation. Also what happens is that the high energy particles are accelerated. One of the examples is when nitrogen is transformed into hydrogen by combining its nucleous with an alpha particle
