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IN 1940, we prepared the isotope of mass 211 of element 85 by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles accelerated in the 60-in. cyclotron of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California1.
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CORSON, D., MACKENZIE, K. & SEGRÈ, E. Astatine : The Element of Atomic Number 85. Nature 159, 24 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159024b0
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