Geiger-Nuttall law (English, name)
expansion: the Geiger-Nuttall law
Senses:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A rule relating the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long-lived ones.
Forms:
form: the Geiger-Nuttall law
tags: canonical