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bioluminescence
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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An alpha particle is a helium-4 nucleus. Tritium is smaller than that, so it can't undergo alpha decay. I think it just beta-decays into helium-3 by spitting out an electron from its nucleus.