On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 6:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: I think you need to look for a more direct route that doesn't rely on a > chain of > rare events. >
Consider, then, the following scenario: [- +] [- +] [- +] [- G1 +] [- G2 +] [- G3 +] [- +] [- +] [- +] Here G1, G2 and G3 refer to grains of tungsten in the wire, and the electrons flow from left to right. Suppose there is a preferred direction for alpha emission (the positive side) and alpha capture (the negative side). Hence the distribution of emissions is not isotropic. Presumably there would be a pile-on effect, where alphas piled up on the left sides of the grains. Would this sufficiently change the odds in seeing mercury in the line spectra? Eric
