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Geiger-Nuttall law
In nuclear physics, the Geiger-Nuttall law or Geiger-Nuttall rule relates the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long lived ones.
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