[ RadSafe ] Re: Radium to Carbon?

[roseb at gdls.com]

See

http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/cgi-bin/nuclide?nuc=Ra226

Note the C14 mode of decay.  The branch ratio for this decay mode is 
extremely low.

Henry

Boyd H. Rose, CM, CIH, CHMM, AAHP(A)
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"Harold Reynolds" <hreyno1547 at hotmail.com> 
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[ RadSafe ] Radium to Carbon?





In refreshing my memory on Radium 226, I stumbled onto a site that stated 
that Ra 226 can sometimes decay directly to Pb 212 by emission of a Carbon 

14 nucleus.  This was totally new to me.  Can anyone enlighten me?

Harry Reynolds