Abstract
It is shown that recoil nuclei produced by alpha-decay give etchable tracks on albite (010) surfaces. After a short etching in 200°C NaOH small triangular pits are revealed in samples exposed to alpha-activity. The pits are observed in an electron microscope. A very high natural background of similar pits was also found in unirradiated samples. The density of these background pits appears to be too high to explain as fossil alpha-recoil tracks: and they are probably caused by other defect processes in the albite.
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