In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:29:37 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Some of the alphas, >statistically, would be hot enough to induce secondary reactions as >well. (Which comes first, the photon emissions or the fission?) [snip] Be8 has a very short half life. I would expect an excited state to have an even shorter half-life (a lot shorter). Therefore I would expect the fission to occur first. However perhaps energy is radiated from the complex while it is shrinking?
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