Abstract
Pommé et al. published a paper claiming that the 209Po half-life is 20 % higher than the erroneous value of 102 (5) a used for 50 years. Collé and Collé published a critique saying that ‘this claim cannot withstand critical scrutiny’. In this work, counterarguments are presented to the critique. The experiment has been continued and a new intermediate half-life value of 122.7 (27) a was obtained. A brief review is made of the 209Po half-life value by Collé et al. and a recommended value of 122.9 (23) a is derived from both experiments.
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Pommé, S., & Benedik, L. (2016). On the 209Po half-life error and its confirmation: an answer to the critique. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 309(2), 931–940. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4646-8
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