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Possible reasons for nuclear transformations upon powerful electric discharges in tubes containing deuterium-inert gases mixtures, along with the transmutation of various elements upon the laser excitation of metal nanoparticles or local explosions in liquid media are discussed. It is shown that the observed phenomena, particularly the fixation of neutrons and hard X-ray photons upon electrical discharges in mixtures with deuterium and the transformation of the stable 196Hg isotope into 197Au upon the laser excitation of Hg nanodrops in D2O, along with the detected increase in the decay rate of 238U with violations of the secular fraction of 234Th after laser excitation of Au nanoparticles (∼20 nm) in UO2Cl2 in D2O and H2O, could be related to the initiated interactions between electrons and nuclei.
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Original Russian Text © S.F. Timashev, V.I. Muromtsev, A.A. Akovantseva, 2013, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2013, Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 1073–1080.
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Timashev, S.F., Muromtsev, V.I. & Akovantseva, A.A. Nuclear processes initiated by electrons. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 87, 1063–1069 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0036024413060277
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