What phenomenon did Otto Hahn discover in the field of nuclear chemistry?
Atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism
Atomic fusion and nuclear fission
Atomic decay and nuclear fusion
Atomic absorption and nuclear decay
Answer
Otto Hahn discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism. Atomic recoil is the backward momentum of a nucleus after it emits a particle, while nuclear isomerism is the existence of nuclei with the same number of protons and neutrons, but different energy states.
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