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As has been reported by one of us1, uranium fission products can be collected by the recoil method many hours after the end of the irradiation of uranium by slow neutrons. This phenomenon can be explained in the simplest way by the assumption that one or more of the fission products are radioactive gases, of more or less long life and coming somewhere in the middle of the β-transmutation chain. To test this assumption we have performed the following experiments.
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CHLOPIN, W., PASSWIK-CHLOPIN, M. & WOLKOV, N. A Particular Mode of Fission of the Uranium Nucleus. Nature 144, 595–596 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144595b0
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