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The 73 pages that link to Alpha decay, each with the reason it gives.

• RoentgeniumRelated: Observed alpha-decay chains provided evidence for the identity of synthesized roentgenium.

• UnbiquadiumRelated: Alpha-decay chains could provide evidence for an element-124 nucleus and its descendants.

• UnpenthexiumRelated: Alpha-decay chains are a principal way researchers identify newly made superheavy nuclei.

• Decay energyBroader topic: Its discrete alpha-particle energies reveal the decay energy and daughter recoil.

• Finite potential wellRelated: A finite nuclear potential barrier lets the alpha-particle wavefunction leak outward.

• HassiumRelated: Alpha-particle emissions helped establish the identities of hassium decay products.

• Marguerite PereyRelated: Perey’s evidence depended on a small alpha-decay branch of actinium-227.

• NobeliumRelated: Alpha emissions help identify nobelium isotopes and trace their descendants.

• ProtactiniumRelated: Protactinium isotopes can undergo alpha decay, reducing their atomic number by two.

• ThorianiteRelated: Alpha particles from thorianite’s radionuclides contribute to internal radiation damage.

• UntrienniumRelated: A chain of alpha decays could provide evidence for a short-lived element 139 isotope.

• BohriumRelated: Several bohrium isotopes decay by alpha emission.

• Decay productBroader topic: Alpha emission lowers the parent’s atomic number by two and mass number by four.

• Isotopes of uraniumRelated: Uranium isotopes commonly decay by emitting alpha particles.

• Poisoning of Alexander LitvinenkoRelated: Polonium-210’s alpha emissions damaged tissue after the isotope entered Litvinenko’s body.

• Primordial nuclideBroader topic: It is a major decay mode of long-lived primordial heavy nuclides such as uranium.

• Quantum tunnellingBroader topic: The emitted alpha particle escapes the nuclear potential through tunnelling.

• UnbibiumRelated: Chains of alpha decays can help identify a newly produced superheavy nucleus.

• UnquadseptiumRelated: Alpha-decay chains are a common signature used to identify superheavy nuclei.

• UnquadtriumRelated: Alpha-decay chains are a key way researchers might identify a newly made superheavy nucleus.

• UntrihexiumRelated: Alpha decay is one possible route by which a hypothetical element 136 isotope could transform.

• UntrioctiumRelated: Chains of alpha decays could provide evidence for a fleeting superheavy parent nucleus.

• UntriuniumRelated: Alpha-decay chains could provide evidence for an element 131 isotope if one were created.