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Which of the following act as fermions and which as bosons: hydrogen atoms, deuterium atoms, neutrinos, muons, table-tennis balls?

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Fermions are those particles which have spin half number of particles and Bosons are those particles which have integer spin particles.

In a nucleus, nucleons are there ( protons and neutrons) which are Baryons and they are spin half particles i.e. if there are odd number of nucleons inside the nucleus of an atom, then it will become a Fermion and if the nucleons inside the nucleus of an atom are even, then it will be a Boson.

${}_{1}^{1}H = h y d r o g e n a t o m m a s s n u m b e r = 1 (o d d n u m b e r o f n u c l e o n) T h e r e f o r e i t i s a F e r m i o n {}_{1}^{2}H = D e u t e r i u m a t o m m a s s n u m b e r = 2 (e v e n n u m b e r o f n u c l e o n s) T h e r e f o r e i t i s a B o s o n$

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