LIEBYs

He asked vbether nilorganite te a good sample?

MITCHELLs

Well, I think it would be a pretty good reflection of

the diet,
VOICE:

T chon think 46 woullt Antegrate rather Jarge tn ope are
of the country,

MITCHELL:

In ether vords, what you would be getting would be an

indirect estimate of the amcunt that is excreted, and
excretion is not going to give you too much indication o

the metabolian of the bedy but it will give you a fairly
good indication of the integrated amcunts in the diet

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itself,

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Before I get lost in the questions I would like to bring
one other thing that Dr, Libby suggested when he was cut

the first tine,

That was the problea of inhalation of

aluairm cxide,

Kew, theugh, you sees to think that is

teo mish of a problem, 1°11 at least menticn it,
cxide would be the ruby type of thing with the strontiusa
eubedded in it and on inhalation, the possibility cf a
tenticn in the lung cane up.

I investigated the literature

on that anid there is a disease known as Shavers disease,

Dr. Shaver being the criginal describer, in which material
is actually set and fixed in a scrt of fibrotic process is

the lung, and sc that possibility does exist then that
aluaimme cxide vas set up but slizilar to a silicosis say,
which vould then fix the mterial, Then the strontiu

Dosorte be acting as a radioactive scurce for lung tissue rather

than bone, ‘There is absolutely no quantitative inforuati rT

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