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Luminescence produced in Air by Polonium-210 α-Particles

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A KNOWLEDGE of the spectral composition of the feeble luminosity arising from the passage of energetic ions through gases is essential to the complete understanding of the processes by which the ions lose energy along their tracks. It also has important applications to the physics of the aurora (part of which is excited by traversal through the high atmosphere of solar protons), and in the efficient use of gas scintillators in nuclear physics.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    R. W. NICHOLLS & E. M. REEVES

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NICHOLLS, R., REEVES, E. Luminescence produced in Air by Polonium-210 α-Particles. Nature 180, 1188–1189 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801188a0

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