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Atomic Disintegration

Nature volume 73, page 389 (1906)Cite this article

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ACCORDING to the investigations on radium, especially by Prof. Rutherford, there can be no longer any doubt that the formation of helium from radium is due to spontaneous disintegration of the radium atom, and it is the same with the other radio-active elements. Most competent investigators have not hesitated to apply the same point of view also to all the other elements.

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