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AN extensive analysis1 of the energetic disintegrations produced in the silver and bromine nuclei of nuclear emulsions exposed to cosmic radiation indicates that the emitted particles, consisting of α-particles, protons and neutrons, generally escape from the nucleus after the excitation energy has been statistically shared among the constituent nucleons.
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HODGSON, P., PERKINS, D. Heavy Nuclear Splinters. Nature 163, 439–440 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163439a0
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