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Identification of Thorium-236

N. TrautmannN. Kaffrell

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Materials sciencechemistryIsotopes of protactiniumRadiochemistryGeneral Physics and AstronomyThoriumchemistry.chemical_elementIdentification (biology)Decay chainPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryMathematical PhysicsNuclear chemistry

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Abstract The new nuclide 236Th has been produced via the (γ, 2 p) reaction by irradiation of 238U with 140 MeV bremsstrahlung. After chemical separation of thorium, the half-life was determined to be 36 ± 3 min -from the growth-decay curve of the strongest γ-ray transition of the daughter nuclide, 9 min 236Pa.

https://doi.org/10.1515/zna-1973-3-433