•16 Does the proposed reactionp+p - A° +E+ +e-conserve (a) charge, (b) baryon number, (c) electron lepton num-ber, (d) spin angular momentum, (e) strangeness, and (f) muonlepton number?

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•16 Does the proposed reaction p+p - A° +E+ +e- conserve (a) charge, (b) baryon number, (c) electron lepton num- ber, (d) spin angular momentum, (e) strangeness, and (f) muon lepton number?