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SAMARIUM-146 was discovered in 1953 by Seaborg and Dunlavey, who produced the nuclide by an intense bombardment of neodymium with α-particles1. They reported that it emitted α-particles of 2.55-MeV. energy and decayed with an α-half-life of approximately 5 × 107 years.
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MACFARLANE, R. Natural Occurrence of Samarium-146. Nature 188, 1180–1181 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881180a0
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