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Uranium undergoes spontaneous fission as well as radioactive α-decay and this produces fissiogenic Xe and Kr which accumulate in U-bearing minerals through geological time. The proposal to use these for determining the age of such minerals was made as early as 1947 when Khlopin, Gerling and Baronovskaya discovered Xe produced by the spontaneous fission of 238U in pitchblende.
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Attendorn, HG., Bowen, R.N.C. (1997). Uranium-xenon and uranium-krypton dating. In: Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5840-4_6
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