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UNDER the bombardment of uranium by neutrons, recoil nuclei of great mass and high ionizing power are produced. According to the measurements of Frisch1, the ionization which they produce along their tracks attains 70 Mev. Their range in air, measured by Joliot2, is nearly 3 cm.
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Frisch, O. R., NATURE, 143, 276 (1939).
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Jdanoff, A., and Myssowsky, L., C.R. Acad. Sci. d'URSS., in the Press.
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MYSSOWSKY, L., JDANOFF, A. Tracks on Photographic Plates of the Recoil Nuclei of Disintegration of Uranium. Nature 143, 794–795 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143794b0
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