Sentence examples for alpha ray from inspiring English sources

solar wind and likely star wind contains ionized atoms generally proton (hydrogen+)alpha ray, oxygen, and nitrogen and carbon.

I could almost predict that the nifty ALPHA RAY was new; even the poker phrase I CHECK seemed fresh.

For example, in alpha decay the atomic number of the "daughter" element is two less than that of the "mother" element, and its atomic weight is four less; this seems consistent with the fact that the alpha ray, identified as helium, has atomic number 2 and atomic weight 4, so that total atomic number and total atomic weight are conserved in the decay reaction.

Calibration for alpha rays was made using 241Am alpha source.

He produced a beam of alpha rays from polonium in a vacuum tube.

The alpha rays proved to be positively charged particles identical to ionized helium atoms.

In 1925 she presented her doctoral thesis on the alpha rays of polonium.

If trapped inside the body, though, alpha rays can cause cancer.

Radioactive nuclei also emit other particles: negative and positive electrons (beta rays), accompanied by neutrinos, and helium nuclei (alpha rays).

The type used in weapons, plutonium 239, has a half-life of 24,000 years and emits alpha rays.

Positively charged helium nuclei are referred to as alpha rays and streams of high-energy electrons are referred to as beta rays.