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Deuteron Bombardment of Silver

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WE have bombarded pure silver with a few microampere-hours of 9 Mv. deuterons from the Cavendish cyclotron and have used a Geiger counter for investigating the radioactive radiations. The activities observed are listed below in order of prominence.

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KRISHNAN, R., GANT, D. Deuteron Bombardment of Silver. Nature 144, 547 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144547a0

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