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Teble

7.

radioassay of liver tissue from
reef fish collected at Enibuk Island, Ailinginae
Atoll, July 11, 1957
Summary of the

lsotope

Be ta-gamma

Betat

d/m/g wet

d/m/g wet

activity,

weight

zn©5

786

activity,”

weight

uc /ke

Per cent

weight

gamma

wet

ok

total beta-

activity

357

39.5

Coot

4ag

138

2195

21.6

C058
C60

69
54

20
19

032
024

3.5
2.7

Feo5
Mn 54

516
25

.234
.011

25.9
1.2

Unidentified

111**

211**

.050

5.6

334

.902

100.0

sr79

Totals

0

1,988

0

0

* Betat activity for Zn©5 is 2.5 per cent of the total

Self-absorption corrections for beta
radioactivity.
activity in cobalt were made by using standards and
spikes in 5 per cent citrate dried on 13-inch plates

and counted in the methane gas-flow Nucleometer

(Lowman et al., 1957).

**unidentified radioactivity was estimated by subtracting
the calculated beta activity in Zn

Cod,

and

from the beta activity (314 d/m/g wet weight)

counted in the methane gas-flow counter.

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