Re: Bismuth breaks half-life record

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

You never know when this item may come up in a

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--- John Johnson <idias@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:

> John

> 

> Thanks for the information. I checked my old Table

> of Isotopes (Ledeer at

> al, Sixth Ed. 1967). The Bi-209 half-life there is

> >2 x 10^18 and the alpha

> energy is ? 3.0 MeV. It looks like the theory I

> learned in graduate school

> was better than I thought at the time!

> 



=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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