ABSTRACT
Experimental evidence shows that the long-range particles expelled from nitrogen are swift H atoms carrying a unit positive charge. Long-range particles were bent in a magnetic field to about the same extent as swift H atoms of the same range, and it was concluded that some of the nitrogen atoms were disintegrated by the intense collisions. In a close collision, the α particle gives sufficient energy to the satellite to cause its escape at high speed from the central nucleus. An α particle in a direct collision with a free H nucleus at rest communicates to it 0.4 of its momentum and 0.64 of its energy. In order to communicate greater energy and momentum, the nucleus must be in motion in the opposite direction to that of the α particle. The momentum communicates to H satellite depends on two factors: (a) the velocity of the H satellite in its orbit (b) the nearness of the satellite to the central nucleus.
