Possible Mechanism of Atomic Disintegration
Abstract
THE experiments of atomic disintegration (Rutherford, Chadwick, Kirsch, Pettersen, Kara-Michailova, Bieler, etc.) show that by bombardment of α-particles it is possible to obtain hydrogen emission. Taking the case of heavy atoms, with big nuclear charges, if the α-particle cannot reach the nucleus, then hydrogen must come from the more external part of the atom.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- September 1927
- DOI:
- 10.1038/120442c0
- Bibcode:
- 1927Natur.120..442P