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by rob74 955 days ago
If I read the article correctly, N-9 is actually a helium nucleus (or alpha particle) with some protons that happen to stick around near to it for fractions of a second that are too short to comprehend - but apparently they detected that a single proton decides to leave first (-> C-8), then one pair (-> Be-6) and finally another (-> He-4).