Barium isotopes, emissions from

After a hard week s work Hahn and Strassmann succeeded in identifying no fewer than sixteen different activities. Their barium separations gave them their most startling results three previously unknown isotopes which they believed to be radium They reported their findings in November in Naturwissenschaften. The creation of radium, element 88, from uranium, they pointed out, must be due to the emission of two successive alpha particles. ... 

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