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Cluster decay, also named heavy particle radioactivity, heavy ion radioactivity or heavy cluster decay,[1] is a rare type of nuclear decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a small "cluster" of neutrons and protons, more than in an alpha particle, but less than a typical binary fission fragment. Ternary fission into three fragments also produces products in the cluster size.