Spontaneous Emission of Neutrons from Radioactive Isotopes

H. Walke

DOI:10.1038/134215A0

Corpus ID: 4138047

Spontaneous Emission of Neutrons from Radioactive Isotopes

@article{Walke1934SpontaneousEO,
  title={Spontaneous Emission of Neutrons from Radioactive Isotopes},
  author={H. Walke},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1934},
  volume={134},
  pages={215-215}
}

H. Walke

Published 1934

Materials Science

Nature

IN confirming the pioneer work of Fermi1 on radio-activity induced by neutron bombardment, Curie, Joliot and Preiswerk2 have shown that the radio active isotopes produced when phosphorus and magnesium are bombarded by neutrons emit : (1) negative electrons, (2) high energy γ–radiation (∼ 5 × 106 e.v.), (3) positrons (which they tenta tively ascribe to pair formation, this explanation being very doubtful as the high energy limit of these electrons was ∼ 1·0 × 106 e.v.), (4) neutrons. The neutron… CONTINUE READING

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