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  2. Alpha particle - Wikipedia

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    The helium nuclei that form 10–12% of cosmic rays are also usually of much higher energy than those produced by nuclear decay processes, and thus may be highly penetrating and able to traverse the human body and also many metres of dense solid shielding, depending on their energy. To a lesser extent, this is also true of very high-energy ...

  3. Nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. According to current theories, the first nuclei were formed a few minutes after the Big Bang, through nuclear reactions in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis. [1]

  4. Triple-alpha process - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear fusion reactions of helium with hydrogen produces lithium-5, which also is highly unstable, and decays back into smaller nuclei with a half-life of 3.7 × 10 −22 s. Fusing with additional helium nuclei can create heavier elements in a chain of stellar nucleosynthesis known as the alpha process, but these reactions are only significant ...

  5. Helium-3 - Wikipedia

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    The partial pressure of helium in the Earth's atmosphere is about 0.52 pascals (7.5 × 10 −5 psi), and thus helium accounts for 5.2 parts per million of the total pressure (101325 Pa) in the Earth's atmosphere, and 3 He thus accounts for 7.2 parts per trillion of the atmosphere.

  6. Alpha process - Wikipedia

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    The other class is a cycle of reactions called the triple-alpha process, which consumes only helium, and produces carbon. [1] The alpha process most commonly occurs in massive stars and during supernovae. Both processes are preceded by hydrogen fusion, which produces the helium that fuels both the triple-alpha process and the alpha ladder ...

  7. Magic number (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Nuclei which have neutron numbers and proton numbers both equal to one of the magic numbers are called "doubly magic", and are generally very stable against decay. [13] The known doubly magic isotopes are helium-4, helium-10, oxygen-16, calcium-40, calcium-48, nickel-48, nickel-56, nickel-78, tin-100, tin-132, and lead-208.

  8. Big Bang nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    In this field, for historical reasons it is customary to quote the helium-4 fraction by mass, symbol Y, so that 25% helium-4 means that helium-4 atoms account for 25% of the mass, but less than 8% of the nuclei would be helium-4 nuclei. Other (trace) nuclei are usually expressed as number ratios to hydrogen.

  9. Ernest Rutherford - Wikipedia

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    Together with Thomas Royds, Rutherford is credited with proving that alpha radiation is composed of helium nuclei. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1911, he theorized that atoms have their charge concentrated in a very small nucleus . [ 11 ]