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23 November 1976

Determination of Pu in Enewetak Soil by Alpha Particle Counting

aliquots were not representative of the entire @1000g) ball-milled
sample. This explanation suggests that alpha particle counting (without
chemistry) might also he used as a simple independent check of radiochemical analyses whenever small aliquots of large environmental samples

are analyzed for transuranics.

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E. T. BRAMLITT
Health Physicist

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