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THE production of a short-lived activity as a result of the neutron bombardment of lithium was first reported in 1936 by Knol and Veldkamp1, who found a β activity of period 0.8 sec. after irradiating a lithium sample with slow neutrons from a 90 mc. radium–beryllium source. This activity they ascribed to Li8 formed according to the reaction
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Rumbaugh, Roberts and Hafstad, Phys. Rev., 54, 657 (1938).
Bayley and Crane, Phys. Rev., 52, 604 (1937).
Sommers and Scherr, Phys. Rev., 69, 21 (1946).
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POOLE, M., PAUL, E. Short-Lived Radioactivity from Lithium Bombarded with Neutrons. Nature 158, 482 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158482a0
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