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Following the pioneer experiment of Fermi, it has been found by Fermi, Amaldi, D'Agostino, Rasetti and Segrè that many elements up to the atomic number 30, when bombarded by neutrons from a radon-beryllium source, are transmuted into a radioactive element which is chemically different from the bombarded element. In several cases of this type, they succeeded in separating chemically the active substance from the bulk of the bombarded element, and there is no inherent difficulty in getting any desirable concentration of the radioactive element.
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Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 146, 483; 1934.
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SZILARD, L., CHALMERS, T. Chemical Separation of the Radioactive Element from its Bombarded Isotope in the Fermi Effect. Nature 134, 462 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134462b0
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