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From: mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re:  temperature & radioactive decay
Message-ID: <585@sri-arpa.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 16:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 16:05:00 1985
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From:  mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA (Peter Mikes)

  I find it rather natural that temperature would not affect radioctivity 
- after all - if you imagine hotter material as bouncing atoms - then
 at any reasonable temperature only outer electron shells get deformed 
 on each collision. There is no effect on the nucleus ( appart fom the 
 broadening of lines due to the Doepler shift) and so no effect on the
 radioctivity. 
 What I find strange is the other half of the statement - namely that they
 ( Segre and Wiegand) eventually did that - that they changet the decay
 rates   - by what effect?  Would somebody please explain what they did?
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