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DURING experiments involving the irradiation of mixed powders of uranium oxide and graphite in the Harwell pile, BEPO, we found evidence of the decomposition of organic matter present in the graphite caused by fission processes occurring in the adjacent oxide phase.
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SANGSTER, D., WRIGHT, J. Decomposition of Organic Matter by Recoil Atoms from an Adjacent Phase. Nature 170, 368 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170368b0
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