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H. W. Wright, E. I. Wyatt, S. A. Reynolds, W. S. Lyon, T. H. Handley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 2 | Number 4 | July 1957 | Pages 427-430
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE57-A25407
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Half-lives of thirty radionuclides are reported. Most of the samples were chemically purified after bombardment. In general, the activity of a given sample was followed for two or more half-lives, employing a gamma ionization chamber, gamma scintillation counter, or a Geiger-Mueller counter. The data were analyzed by the least squares method. Some of the half-life values are significantly different from earlier ones; others merely confirm those already established.