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- (11.2%) by electron capture and positron emission, and it also transforms ... through neutron capture by 39K or alpha emission by calcium. 37Ar is created ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 06:25, 12 August 2023
- Cesium (also spelled caesium, chemical symbol Cs, atomic number 55) is a member of the group of chemical elements known as alkali metals. Soft ...14 KB (1,931 words) - 00:09, 4 December 2023
- Pa, is alpha decay and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. The primary decay products before 231-Pa are actinium isotopes, and the primary products ...9 KB (1,150 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Osmium (chemical symbol Os, atomic number 76) is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family and is found ...14 KB (1,905 words) - 04:43, 18 November 2022
- but it produces significant amounts of gamma and beta radiation from radioactive decay products. == Nuclear fuel cycle == If MOX nuclear fuel ...10 KB (1,354 words) - 06:46, 12 January 2024
- *beta-neptunium (above 280 °C), tetragonal, density (313 °C) 19.36 Mg/m3, and *gamma-neptunium (above 577 °C), cubic, density (600 °C) 18 Mg/m3 ...11 KB (1,451 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- remnants. 249Cf is formed from the beta decay of 249Bk and most other californium isotopes are made by subjecting berkelium to intense neutron ...11 KB (1,466 words) - 18:27, 25 November 2023
- *The isotope 90Sr is one of the best long-lived, high-energy beta ... *The radioisotope 90Sr is also used in cancer therapy. Its beta emission ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 21:04, 26 February 2023
- Cerium (chemical symbol Ce, atomic number 58) is a silvery metallic element that is a member of the lanthanide series of chemical elements. It ...15 KB (2,039 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- Unlike beta decay, alpha decay is governed by the strong nuclear force ... with other radioactive materials that emit beta and gamma rays. The 2006 assassination ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- application of induced gamma emission. That work follows over two decades of basic research by an international community into the means for ...10 KB (1,277 words) - 16:40, 21 January 2024
- resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET.) ... 1508 Kelvin, it transforms into its "beta" form, which has a body ...13 KB (1,750 words) - 07:39, 15 April 2024
- coming from atoms, which they named alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. and James Chadwick in 1914 showed that the beta decay spectrum was continuous ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 00:29, 17 November 2022
- electron capture and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. The primary decay products before 141Pr are element 58 (cerium) isotopes and the primary ...12 KB (1,535 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- Positron emission tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique ... The concept of emission and transmission tomography was introduced ...26 KB (3,835 words) - 05:46, 30 November 2022
- rocks; Rb-87 decays to stable strontium-87 by emission of a negative beta particle. During fractional crystallization, Sr tends to become concentrated ...14 KB (1,892 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- heavier isotopes, the primary mode is beta emission, giving ruthenium, with ... heavier isotopes, the primary mode is beta emission, giving ruthenium, with ...43 KB (6,283 words) - 22:03, 13 January 2024
- Pierre and Marie discovered that beta rays are negatively charged ... energy, by identifying the continuous emission of heat from radium particles ...14 KB (2,057 words) - 05:21, 24 November 2022
- Niobium or columbium (chemical symbol Nb, atomic number 41) is a rare, soft, gray metal. It was discovered in a variety of columbite (now called ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 04:59, 15 November 2022
- extended life, thermionic electron emission sources for scanning electron microscopes. * Petroleum cracking catalysts. * Gas lantern mantles. ...11 KB (1,398 words) - 22:23, 22 October 2022
