(nuclear physics) The series of nuclides resulting from the decay of uranium-238, including isotopes of uranium, thorium, protactinium, radium, radon, pdonium, lead, bismuth, and thallium with mass number 4n+2, where n is an integer. Also known as uranium decay series; uranium-radium series.
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- radon-222 (nuclear physics)
- radioactive series
- uranium dating (in archaeology)
- Cave (geology and geodesy)
- uranium (element, metal)
- Radon (inorganic chemistry)
- uraninite
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- Anthony Dosseto
- Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art
- Paleontology
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