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IN connexion with the recent hypotheses1 that some of the components of the cosmic rays are ions, it may be noted that the emission of high speed ions from stars would reduce their mass by the same amount as if these ions had been annihilated in the manner suggested by Jeans. The emission of a proton from a star represents the same loss of stellar mass as the transformation of a proton and an electron into a quantum of ultra γ-radiation.
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Blackett, International Conference on Physics. 1934. Compton and Stephenson, Phys. Rev., 45, 441; 1934.
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WALKE, H. Cosmic Radiation and Stellar Evolution. Nature 135, 36 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135036b0
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