The decay scheme of a radioactive substance is a graphical presentation of all the transitions occurring in a decay, and of their relationships. Examples...
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Beta particle (section Beta decay schemes)
emitted by the radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus, known as beta decay. There are two forms of beta decay, β− decay and β+ decay, which produce electrons...
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Gamma ray (redirect from Gamma decay)
radionuclide decay is the decay scheme for cobalt-60, as illustrated in the accompanying diagram. First, 60 Co decays to excited 60 Ni by beta decay emission...
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Internal conversion (section Example: decay of 203Hg)
remaining electrons in the atom cascade down to fill the vacancies. The decay scheme on the left shows that 203Hg produces a continuous beta spectrum with...
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Uranium–lead dating (section Decay routes)
implies the coupled use of both decay schemes in the 'concordia diagram' (see below). However, use of a single decay scheme (usually 238U to 206Pb) leads...
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different types of radioactive decay, including all three main types of beta decay: Electron emission (β−) to 40Ca with a decay energy of 1.31 MeV at 89.6%...
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magnetic field has a radial component. An example: in the simplified decay scheme of 60Co above, the angular momenta and the parities of the various states...
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Actinium-225 (section Decay and occurrence)
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...
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radium and uranium-238 decay chain, and has a half-life of 3.8235 days. Its first four products (excluding marginal decay schemes) are very short-lived...
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synthesized, occurs as decay product of 270Hs Not directly synthesized, occurs as decay product of 271Hs Not directly synthesized, occurs as decay product of 275Ds...
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rays with 1.17 MeV and 1.33 MeV respectively. (See the decay scheme article for the decay scheme of cobalt-60.) The two gamma lines can be seen well-separated;...
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radioactive isotope of gold. It undergoes beta decay to stable 198Hg with a half-life of 2.69464 days. The decay properties of 198Au have led to widespread...
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(n), the isotope 198Au is formed in a highly excited state, and quickly decays to the ground state of 198Au by the emission of gamma rays (𝛾). In this...
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Caesium-137 (section Decay)
Melhase. Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years. About 94.6% decays by beta emission to a metastable nuclear isomer of barium: barium-137m (137mBa...
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Iodine-131 (section Radioactive decay)
in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. It is associated with nuclear energy, medical...
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two different decays of seemingly identical kaon particles were observed. The "τ" kaon decayed into three pions, but the "θ" kaon decayed into two pions...
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example is the two states of the single isotope 99 43Tc shown among the decay schemes. Each of these two states (technetium-99m and technetium-99) qualifies...
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State of Decay 2 is a 2018 action-adventure survival video game developed by Undead Labs and published by Xbox Game Studios. The game is a followup to...
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McHarris, William; Stephens, F.; Asaro, F.; Perlman, I. (1966). "Decay Scheme of Einsteinium-254". Physical Review. 144 (3): 1031–1045. Bibcode:1966PhRv...
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Half-Life: Decay is a multiplayer-only expansion pack for Valve's first-person shooter Half-Life. Developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra...
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Nuclear isomer (redirect from Metastability in nuclear decay)
August 2019. Gardiner, Steven (12 August 2017). "How to read nuclear decay schemes from the WWW Table of Radioactive Isotopes" (PDF). University of California...
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P.; Bé, M.M.; Lépy, M.C.; Tartes, I. (2010). "Determination of 93Zr decay scheme and half-life". Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 68 (1): 122–130. doi:10...
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emits short-range alpha particles, gamma-rays and positrons, in its decay scheme, which makes it suitable for targeted alpha therapy. The particular study...
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It can decay by the following methods: Electron capture: the decay energy is 0.93 MeV and the decay product is uranium-236. This usually decays (with a...
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International. 6 April 2018. Eckerman KF, Endo A: MIRD: Radionuclide Data and Decay Schemes. Society for Nuclear Medicine, 2008. ISBN 978-0-932004-80-2 Table of...
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isotopes) including half-life, mass, interaction cross sections, and decay schemes. Cyclotron beams can be used to bombard other atoms to produce short-lived...
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Enshittification (redirect from Platform decay)
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over...
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Osborne, John L.; Grant, Patrick J.; Woodruff, Gene L. (1983). "7Be decay scheme and the solar neutrino problem". Physical Review C. 27 (4): 1728–1731...
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Electron capture (redirect from Epsilon decay)
{\displaystyle _{e}} Since this single emitted neutrino carries the entire decay energy, it has this single characteristic energy. Similarly, the momentum...
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