Scientists use high-energy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure
Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U ...
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Depleted Uranium
The table below shows the fraction by weight of the three isotopes in any quantity of natural uranium, their half lives, and specific activity. The half life of a radioactive isotope is the time taken ...
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High-energy heavy ion collisions reveal subtleties of nuclear structure at US lab
Scientists demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a world ...
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Physicists propose new solution to the neutron lifetime puzzle
Different neutron states could explain why different experiments produce different figures for how long neutrons survive ...
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Radiometric dating finds Earth is 2.2 billion years old
Boltwood studied this concept of "radioactive series," and found that lead was always present in uranium and thorium ores. He believed that lead must be the final product of the radioactive decay ...