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WHEN one tries to establish a connexion between the nuclear spin and the number of protons (not bound in α-particles) in the nucleus, one is led to examine the possibility that not as many protons as possible are combined as α-particles; very suggestive in this respect is the case of bismuth (nuclear moment 9/2h2π), the nucleus of which may be assumed to be
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Cf. Ergebnisse der exakten Naturw., 9, 1930; F. G. Houtermans, "Neuere Arbeiten über Quantentheorie des Atomkerns", p. 123; especially pp. 188–191. Our Fig. 1 was taken from this article. G. Gamow, "Constitution of Atomic Nuclei", Chap. i. pp. 14–16.
F. G. Houtermans, l.c., Figs. 10a–10d.
See, however, F. G. Houtermans, l.c. p. 197; and G. Gamow, l.c. p. 20.
G. Gamow, l.c., p. 16, Fig. 3.
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RUTGERS, A. Number of Free Protons in the Nucleus. Nature 129, 361–362 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129361a0
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