Fossil fuel combustion has dispersed fly ash particles worldwide, pretty well coincident with the peak distribution of the «bomb spike» of
radionuclides generated by atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, Dr Waters says.
Not exact matches
The peptide is labelled with the alpha - emitting
radionuclide 225Actinium that
generates four high - energy alpha particles during its decay.
The light
generated from the
radionuclides retained on the column is detected and the concentration calculated.
A test with the potential to be particularly informative would assess NWA 7325's levels of «cosmogenic
radionuclides,» unstable atoms
generated by exposure to cosmic radiation.