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  2. Alpha decay - Wikipedia

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    Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay, where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind. It is the most common form because of the combined extremely high nuclear binding energy and relatively small mass of the alpha particle.

  3. Radioactive decay - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is considered radioactive. Three of the most common types of decay are alpha, beta, and gamma decay.

  4. Actinium-225 - Wikipedia

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    Actinium-225 (225 Ac, Ac-225) is an isotope of actinium.It undergoes alpha decay to francium-221 with a half-life of 10 days, and is an intermediate decay product in the neptunium series (the decay chain starting at 237 Np).

  5. Uranium-238 - Wikipedia

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    Uranium emits alpha particles through the process of alpha decay. External exposure has limited effect. External exposure has limited effect. Significant internal exposure to tiny particles of uranium or its decay products, such as thorium-230, radium-226 and radon-222 , can cause severe health effects, such as cancer of the bone or liver.

  6. Alpha particle - Wikipedia

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    Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus. [5] They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay but may also be produced in other ways. Alpha particles are named after the first letter in the Greek alphabet, α.

  7. Decay energy - Wikipedia

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    The decay energy is the mass difference Δm between the parent and the daughter atom and particles. It is equal to the energy of radiation E . If A is the radioactive activity , i.e. the number of transforming atoms per time, M the molar mass, then the radiation power P is:

  8. Mott problem - Wikipedia

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    The problem later associated with Mott concerns a spherical wave function associated with an alpha ray emitted from the decay of a radioactive atomic nucleus. [3] Intuitively, one might think that such a wave function should randomly ionize atoms throughout the cloud chamber, but this is not the case.

  9. Decay chain - Wikipedia

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    The four most common modes of radioactive decay are: alpha decay, beta decay, inverse beta decay (considered as both positron emission and electron capture), and isomeric transition. Of these decay processes, only alpha decay (fission of a helium-4 nucleus) changes the atomic mass number ( A ) of the nucleus, and always decreases it by four.