Radioactive Isotopes of Bismuth (open access)

Radioactive Isotopes of Bismuth

Five isotopes of bismuth occur in nature. Using particle accelerators providing helium ions up to 40 Mev in energy and deuterons up to 20 Mev in energy, it was possible to produce and identify two artificial radioactive isotopes. With the advent of the 184-inch Berkeley syncho-cyclotron and its hundreds of Mev energies, it was possible to form highly neutron-deficient bismuth isotopes extending more than ten mass units below stable Bi(209).
Date: April 6, 1950
Creator: Neumann, H. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library