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Physicists Just Found The Lightest Known Form of Uranium, And It Has Unique Behaviors
MARA JOHNSON-GROH, LIVE SCIENCE
4 MAY 2021
Scientists have discovered a new type of uranium that is the lightest ever known. The discovery could reveal more about a weird alpha particle that gets ejected from certain radioactive elements as they decay.
The newfound uranium, called uranium-214, is an isotope, or a variant of the element, with 30 more neutrons than protons, one fewer neutron than the next-lightest known uranium isotope. Because neutrons have mass, uranium-214 is much lighter than more common uranium isotopes, including uranium-235, which is used in nuclear reactors and has 51 extra neutrons.
Study Shows Abnormal Enhancement of a-Particle Clustering in Uranium Isotopes
Written by AZoMApr 19 2021
In nuclear physics research, the discovery of new isotopes with extreme proton/neutron numbers is always fascinating. The α-decay in the heavy nuclei region is one of the ubiquitous decay modes and has a crucial role in the search for new isotopes.
The illustration of the enhanced α-particle preformation in
214,
216U deduced by the strong proton-neutron interaction. Image Credit: Zhiyuan Zhang.
But even after nearly a century of analyzing α-decay, researchers are still unable to perfectly explain how the α-particle forms at the nucleus surface before it is emitted.