-55Fe-> and znd were the principal radioactive constituents,

Mn34, Cool, C038, and Co

with

60 contributing the remainder of the

activity.
6,

In fish liver samples collected at Belle Island,

Enti-

wetok Atoll, May and June, 1954, Fe-> accounted for 95.3 per
cent and gn©5 3.1 per cent of the total activity.

Min >4 Col,

and C900 also were detected,

7.

‘The pattern of cistribution of the transition elements

manganese, iron, cobalt, and zine in the plants and animals at

the Pacific Proving Ground is as follows.

In general, they are

present in the sea and not on the land, in marine animals and
not in marine piants.

Few or none of the radioactive transition

elements are present in island soil, in plants growing in the

soil, or in the herbivorous field rats (Rattus exulans),
ever,

in the plankton,

How-

the marine invertebrate filter feeders

and omnivores, and in the fishes, the above named isotopes are
present and may contribute up to 100 per cent of the total
radioactivity.

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