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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Dosimetry of Alpha Particles. | Nov 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Physics - Generation of Ξ±-Particle Beams With a Multi-kJ, Peta-Watt Class Laser System. | Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Ξ± particle based on modern nuclear forces (PDF). | Apr 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Dosimetry of Alpha Particles. | Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Nuclear Fusion - Alpha particle loss measurements and analysis in JET DT plasmas (PDF). | Dec 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Energy - The Manhattan Project - Alpha Particles. | Aug 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Scientific Reports - Development of an ultrahigh resolution real time alpha particle imaging system for observing the trajectories of alpha particles in a scintillator. | Jul 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Historical experiment: Alpha Particles Scattering Experiment. | Oct 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency - Alpha particles. | Jul 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Alpha particles and alpha radiation: Explained. | Feb 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Dosimetry of Alpha Particles. | Dec 30, 2022 | ||
| Changed "Rutherford bombarded nitrogen" to "Patrick Blackett bombarded nitrogen." Changed "1919" to "1925." | Aug 23, 2018 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Physics Department at Idaho State University - Alpha Particles. | Jul 22, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 28, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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