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with a higher activity density than perhaps the plant did,

wr

We

¢y

also have the time lag which is involved hero in terns of what
you might call specific activity -- tho activity of the P-52
as compared to the amount of stadl2 vhosphorous per se that is
there,

Obviously, this so2cific activity nas to decrease as
is)

you go down throuzh any food chain teecause you have tha tine

DR, KETCHULi:

a

esay.

&

element with resosct ta radiozctive

I knoyv that in the marine situation on

&@ straight chemical basis, phosrvhorous is close to ten to the
seventa,
DR. FOSTER:
the water,

You ere talking cpout the plant versus

We have an aquarium typo of exporinant where we

know the quantities there a little nicer tran wa do in the
window.

We have concentration factors on the order of ten to

the sixth from the water into the Planktonic algae in very low
phesphorous concentrations in terms of the water.
DR. KETCiIUGi:

But you do not have any plant observations

on the river?
DR. FOSTER! Yes, we ean write dowm a concentration
factor here in terms of the phesphorous in the river versu
the plant, and it is on the order of 559,009 times.

The samt,

in terms of phosphorous -- it is on the order of-150,000 timss

this in

terns of radicactivity is not necessarily preciso in terms o

Ks

Of course, we do have differences -- (indicating)

the phosphorous per se because of decay factors which are involves

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