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The Period of Decay of Radium B and Radium C

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Extract

Measurements of the saturation currents produced between two parallel plates by a source of radium C of carefully tested purity have been performed by an accurate galvanometer method. From the results a transformation constant

has been assigned to radium C corresponding to a half-value period of 19·72±·04 minutes.

Similar measurements with radium active deposit have enabled a value to be estimated for the period of radium B between 26·7 and 26·8 minutes, which is the limit of accuracy of the experimental data.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1926

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