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An unsuccessful attempt to influence the normal decay of a weak source of polonium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. Feather
Affiliation:
Fellow of Trinity College

Extract

Several suggestions have recently been made that the course of radioactive transformation is not, as is usually believed, independent of such changes of the physical environment as may be effected on earth. To the particular locality, to the concentration of the source, and to the action of intense γ radiation have been attributed effects which their investigators have been unable to ascribe to other contingencies. In particular, Pokrowski has developed a tentative hypothesis to explain the complicated anomalies which he had already observed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1930

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