The sulfur-32 nucleus captures the neutron and emits a proton, reducing the atomic number by one while maintaining the mass number of 32.

As soon as the nucleus captures the neutron, it splits into two lighter atoms and throws off two or three new neutrons (the number of ejected neutrons depends on how the U-235 atom splits).

Some nuclei can capture a number of neutrons and remain relatively stable, not undergoing transmutation or decay for many months or even years.

The nucleus may capture an orbiting electron, converting a proton into a neutron (electron capture).

Nuclear fissions in fissile fuels are the result of the nuclear excitation energy produced when a fissile nucleus captures a neutron.

The supersaturated solute mass the original nucleus may capture in a time unit is called the growth rate expressed in kg/(m*h), and is a constant specific to the process.

After the initial discovery of the neutron in 1932 by Sir James Chadwick, H. J. Taylor in 1935 showed that boron-10 nuclei could capture thermal neutrons.

Finally, these atomic nuclei captured electrons to form atoms.

Above the radiation zone is another thick shell called the convection zone, where the temperature is cool enough that bare atomic nuclei can capture orbital electrons and behave as a gas.

Neutron activation is the process in which neutron radiation induces radioactivity in materials, and occurs when atomic nuclei capture free neutrons, becoming heavier and entering excited states.