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The paper reports on the observation of the spontaneously fissioning nuclides as a result of hydrochemical and high-temperature processing of iron-manganese nodules. The spontaneous fission in the samples obtained was measured by the track method using electrochemical etching, and nuclides with T 1/2 = 15 d, T 1/2 = 25 d that is similar in chemical properties to Os and T 1/2 = 62 d, (similar in chemical properties to Pb and Ra) were detected. The content of the parent nuclide in iron-manganese nodules corresponds to 4 × 10−14−8 × 10−14 g/g.
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Maslov, O.D. The concentration of short-lived spontaneously fissioning nuclides from iron-manganes nodules. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 13, 204–209 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477116020151
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