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PROF. N. BOHB, discussing the recent observations on the break up of certain heavy nuclei when bombarded with neutrons into particles of approximately equal size, suggests that this effect might be treated approximately as a classical mechanical problem, on the assumption that the excitation energy is distributed among the various degrees of freedom in a way resembling the thermal agitation of a solid or liquid body. The usual radioactive phenomena would then be analogous to the evaporation of a molecule from a liquid drop.
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Points from Foregoing Letters. Nature 143, 337 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143337a0
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