area of life longer, in other words as the life spe gc

longer the incidence of carcinoma is going wpe Siaply dbehax
whatever stimalii are accumulating over the years have a

|

greater period of tine in whith te sat, 80 that this brihcs
us inte the reala of the carcinogenic effect of radiation as
being a critical thing,

Now with regard te strontion as

opposed to others, it relates to the fact that the neta:

stays fixed, ani if the biolosical half life is-we very
(the turnover of isctopic carben fs relatively short) 2
think it's measured in days on a biological experiment

it

just coee out.) whereas we are measuring this thing in

of the lifetine of the individual, so that the amount thd

4

cate fixed in bone, 16 becoass the physical half life while
ta of eigniticance vethar than the Mological half if,
+:

BETES

Dut couldn's this change Af realty the voteworldwere

of redleactivity, 1f the new carbon which youget Ls gael,
Fadiouctive as coe which you elininetay what gooddoes do
you thet you eliminate the first carbon?
MITCHELL:

.

’

Well, f you keep increasing the amount of ratlosctivity] frm
acy source, you undoubtedly are going to increasethep

ede

Llity ef getting carcinanas developed, So that vhatever| the

|

eource is, strontima heppens to be the tyys of thing, ial
other words why is radius so inportent? For that eas
that the enocnt of radiun you take in is very emcllconsis

140

Select target paragraph3