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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus by emission of an alpha particle.
Wiktionary
- n. Radioactive decay by emitting an alpha particle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. radioactive decay of an atomic nucleus that is accompanied by the emission of an alpha particle
Examples
“An example of alpha decay is the change of the very radioactive isotope uranium-238 (with 92 protons and 146 neutrons) to thorium-234 (with 90 protons and 144 neutrons).”
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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Varieties of Radiation
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