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IN NATURE of June 2, Mr. Jeans brings forward the view that the energy manifested in radio-active processes is derived from the coalescence of positive and negative ions, thus involving an annihilation of matter. For some time it has seemed to me that some such fundamental change is needed to account for the observed phenomena, and I therefore venture to submit some general and numerical considerations bearing on this view.
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BURTON, C. The Source of Radio-active Energy. Nature 70, 151 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070151c0
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