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that soae fishes live auch longer than others and you

don't want fish that are toe olds

he seexed to think

that a tuna fish was very good and then you just teke ob

bones from a tuna fish.

So it would sees that you could

sanple the biosphere of the ocean pretty easily.

You

take these bones and calcine thea and pro-ess them and
measure the yttriwsa in them.
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Its perfectly siaple.

When you say the ocean is tie best mixed meiium, do you
mean lateral mixing or vertical aixing?
Kell, I think I mean principally lateral sixing and

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vertical mixing to perhaps a depth of a thousand meters,
thru the life sone anyhow.

Certainly it isn’t perfectly

mixed in the full depth, bot it is mized in as far as
light existe in the sea to any appreciable extent down

about 200 or 300 meters.

‘¢ is mixed, in other words,

predict that the strontiuga content of sea water will not

vary widely froa spot to spot, this, however, it would be
wise to test it.
What do you think vr. Kulp atout this?

low many samples

would you estimate ought te be taken, say of the Atlaitie
Ocean in this pilot assay?
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I would think I would take about 10.
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