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Subject: Tritium decay
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 10:21:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 10:21:37 1983
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From:  Joe Buck <buck@NRL-CSS>

It is difficult to see how tritium (two neutrons and one proton) could
emit an alpha particle (two neutrons and two protons). It is in fact
a beta emitter, decaying into helium-3 (one neutron becomes a proton).