Due to thealphadecayof thorium and uranium, monazite contains a significant amount of helium, which can be extracted by heating.
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Mendelevium-256, the chemically most important isotope of mendelevium, decays through electron capture 90.7% of the time andalphadecay9.9% of the time.
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Most of these decay predominantly throughalphadecay, but some undergo spontaneous fission.
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A half-life of 0.89 ms was calculated: decays into byalphadecay.
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Alphadecaytypically occurs in the heaviest nuclides.
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Lighter astatine isotopes have quite high energies ofalphadecay, which become lower as the nuclei become heavier.
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This activity was also observed from thealphadecayof flerovium-287.
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In 1983, they repeated the experiment using a new technique: measurement ofalphadecayfrom a decay product that had been separated out chemically.
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Theoretical estimates ofalphadecayhalf-lives of isotopes of ununtrium are in good agreement with the experimental data.
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Unstable nuclei may undergoalphadecay, in which they emit an energetic helium nucleus, or beta decay, in which they eject an electron (or positron).
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Unlike beta decay,alphadecayis governed by the interplay between the nuclear force and the electromagnetic force.
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Alphadecay, the release of a high-energy helium nucleus, is the most common form of radioactive decay for plutonium.
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After observing the fivealphadecayevents that generate dubnium-268, spontaneous fission events were observed with a long half-time.
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Astatine'salphadecayenergies follow the same trend as for other heavy elements.
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These decays have been linked to an isomeric level decaying byalphadecaywith a half-life of 19 s.
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