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alpha hindrance factor

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effect upon alpha decay rate

  • decay of beryllium-7
    In radioactivity: Alpha decay

    …rate formula (6) is the hindrance factor. The existence of uranium-235 in nature rests on the fact that alpha decay to the ground and low excited states exhibits hindrance factors of over 1,000. Thus the uranium-235 half-life is lengthened to 7 × 108 years, a time barely long enough compared…

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