Curie and Joliot (1) have reported that under the bombardment by α-particles from Po, several of the light elements, viz., B, Mg, Al undergo transmutations which result in the production of radioactive isotopes which have half-lives of the order of several minutes and disintegrate by the ejection of positrons.
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Neddermeyer et al. (1934) studied this question.