factors of safety or uncertainty vnich you bring in by first caleulating ~
one thing and then anotber and forgetting vhat you have
and that is why X would like to calculate « uniform dis
tio to totel = +
ask vhet is the ratio of this to total calc{um, and this
calcium should be all right even if we have a nonunifors
BOLOMGR:
But (ff you ¢onsider the ratio of strontium to calciun
sets of figures that are available I think, One is that
that animale take up strontius at the sane rate that
calcium,
This is ons set of @igures. Secondly, there f
figures to the literature about a couple of other invest
which it looks as if animals take up caloimum twiceas
take up strontiua,
factor.
In other words, there is a tvo-to-cnel
.
Thirdly, there is the data the Krieger has which
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just the distribution of the norsal strontiun to caletua
ratio in matter!
as it now exista, there fs a factor of 100 between the so: 1 and mate
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Ja whieh direction?
Boil, has a higher ratio of stroutiua to calctus,
What ratio &> you get for soil?
KRIEGER:
the typical Eastern Anerican soil ie the ratio of about
strontium atons
to a 1,000 calcium atons.
at UCLA, the
In the results of inveatigato
ratio for adults, that is frou 5 years up to 72 years, is
% 6. 3.
The
o7 ig on the veight basis rather than atoate.
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