ranging from 12 to 4600 nautical miles from Ground Zero. Several new
kinds of instruments were constructed and used, and deep~sea instrument
stations were installed on the tops of two mounts. The first water

waves

arriving at Eniwetok Island apparently traveled along paths

outside the lagoon. At several of the stations there were two distinct
arrivals of water waves, the first apparently being driven by. the
propagated rise in atmospheric pressure caused by the explosion and
thus traveling at the speed of sound and the second moving along the
water surface in the usual manner at a velocity of the square root of
gh. At the distant island stations a long-continued persistence of wave
activity substantially above background was observed, modulated by
sporadic enhancements that suggest reflections from major land masses. ;
Major Descriptors:
PROPAGATION

Descriptors:

*NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- WATER WAVES;

*WATER WAVES -- WAVE

PACIFIC OCEAN; VELOCITY

Broader Terms:

EXPLOSIONS;

SEAS;

SURFACE WATERS

Subject Categories: 450200*
-- Military Technology,
Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
10/5/824
(Item 524 from file: 103)
00720498
EDB-81-028751
Title: Radioactivity in certain pelagic fish.

confirmation of radioiron in skipjack

Author(s):

Amano,

Subfile:

TIC

K.;

Tozawa,

H.;

Takase,

Source: Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi (Japan)
Publication Date: 1956
p 1261-1268
Document Type: Journal Article
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8103
(Technical

A.

v 21.

IV.

Weaponry,

& National

Separation and

Coden: NSUGA

Information Center).

Country of Origin: Japan
Abstract: Incinerated liver (0.2g.) and stomach (0.15g.) of a skipjack
caught near the Bikini Atoll on June 19, 1954, were dissolved in 0.2N
HCl, filtered, and the filtrates made up to 100 cc.; the

radioactivities were 130 and 86 counts/min./cc., respectively. The

solutions were passed through column of Dowex 50. Elution with 0.5%
oxalic acid gave powerful radioactivity with liver, but very weak with

stomach. Elution with a solution of NH/sub 4/ citrate at pH 3.5 from

both samples showed strong radioactivity, probably due to the presence
of /sup 65/Zn. Distinct radioactivity was also detected in the NH/sub
4/ citrate eluate at pH 4.1 from the liver, but not from the stomach;
this eluted element emitted no ..gamma..-rays and differed from /sup
65/Zn. The elution behavior of the radioactive element in the 0.5%
oxalic acid elution showed that it was Fe; elution by 0.6M HCl after

adsorption to Dowex 1 supported this result. /sup 95/Zr and /sup 95/Nb

were indicated from these data to be absent.

The pulse height,

distribution curve of ..gamma..-ray emitted by the element also

coefficient of Al, Ag, and Au for x rays from /sup 55/Fe, /sup 63/Ni
and the isolated element indicated that the element was /sup 55/Fe.;

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indicated that it was Fe. However, the radiation decay curve differed
considerably from that of /sup 59/Fe, suggesting the presence of
radioactive element with longer half-life. Comparison of the absorption _

Major Descriptors: *FISHES -- RADIOACTIVITY; *LIVER -- RADIOCHEMICAL
ANALYSIS; *STOMACH -- RADIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
Descriptors: ALUMINIUM; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIKINI; CITRATES; DECAY;
FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; GOLD; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; ION EXCHANGE; IRON
55; IRON 59; IRON ISOTOPES; NICKEL 63; NIOBIUM 95; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;
OXALIC ACID; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; SILVER; 2INC 65; ZIRCONIUM 95
Broader Terms: ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES;
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY;
CARBOXYLIC ACID SALTS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DAYS LIVING
RADIOISOTOPES; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ELEMENTS; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI;
EXPLOSIONS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GLANDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS;
INORGANIC ACIDS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IRON

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