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| | E007: The Masurium File: An X-Ray Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Walter Noddack, Ida Tacke and Otto Berg [1] reported the discovery of masurium and rhenium, elements 43 and 75, on the basis of weak lines in X-ray spectra excited by electron impact on fractions extracted from niobium and platinum ores. |
 | | It is now known that a longer-lived isotope of Tc, produced by spontaneous fission, occurs naturally in uranium ores, but in concentrations which may, or may not, fall short by several factors of ten from what would have been detected in the Ma experiments [3,4]. |
 | | Ida Noddack-Tacke [5] published the first suggestion (for which she received little attention or credit) that Fermi's 'new elements' could be products of atomic fission and described how to prove it, five years before the idea was accepted. |
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