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RECENT investigations of the hot atom chemistry of lead-212 recoiling from α-decay of polonium-216 have shown that energetic lead atoms can react with gases such as methane to form volatile compounds1. In the recoil reactions, the lead species originate with high kinetic energy and are afterwards degraded by collisions, eventually reacting to form stable compounds.
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KAY, J., KUEBLES, N. & NELSON, L. Vacuum Ultra-Violet Absorption Spectra of Flash-heated Lead reacting with Various Gases. Nature 194, 671 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194671a0
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