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that's probably a major limiting factor, I suppose, in how
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In fact,
much will grow.
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it all disappears into living matter.
plenty of 411 the elements to go around?
or
into a pond,
If you throw 2 little pae
elements in the ocean, but are they available?
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see this in fresh water situations,
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able, of course, they are blotted up.
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Sam illustration with that of my photograph that we pre-
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sented a while ago in this case were the giant colum end was
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standing up against this one detomation of the north region
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at Endwetok.
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western edge of the atoll. We dubbed this shot "the manure
Does this happen in the ocean or is there
DONALDSON:
I'm sure that there are plenty of
And 1if-.you
suddenly male many essential, biologically essential, availMaybe we can use the
The fallout of this came right across the north-
15 ~ spreader" shot and this was rather popularly used in the test
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group, for in making the reconnaissance sweeps over the atoll
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there was a band inside the atoll of brilliant green, just a
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brilliant green.
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the relatively blue waters of the lagoon over this green band
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that persisted for several days and immediately the radiation
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instruments would jump several orders of mgnitude,
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was quite obvious the thing that happened.
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ation had burmed a good deal of the calcium carbonate, just to
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take one element,
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an oxide,
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Being soluble, it was picked up in the explosion of plant
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growth.
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In other words, a nutritive media dropped in the sea had
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stimulated a very great growth, but in this were the direct
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materlais, if you want a good sample, biased tremendously,
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this was the place to go get them.
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tration of radiation tied up in this form,
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But immediately you had--you can fly from
Well, it
That is, the deton-
It converted the calcium carbonate into
The oxide had dropped in the waters as hydroxide,
But there are other elements involved in this, too,
One could get a concen-
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Well, you can carry this still further in the early