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paper was removed by burning off in a stream of atomic oxygen from a
gas discharge generator.
The maximum temperature reached during
burnoff was around 200°C,
;
The weight of material recovered varied
from 50 mg. to about 4,5 gm,
At UCRL some of the cloud samples were separated into coarse and
fine fractions using a Bahco centrifuge and fall rate distribution curves were
determined for the two fractions with the micromerograph.
Fall rate
data were also obtained for all the height line samples and in several cases
the specific activity-fall rate curves were determined for cloud and fallout
samples,
In operating the micromerograph the weight could either be re-
corded continuously or in 16 increments by means of individual pans ona
rotating turntable,
Two of the height line samples and three cloud samples, separated
into coarse and fine fractions with the Bahco, were transmitted from
UCRL to NRDL for examination,
The chemical substances present in these
samples were identified with the polarizing microscope and by X-ray diffraction, and the particle size distributions determined by microscopic observaHon,
A binocular microscope fitted with ocular micrometers containing a
linear scale was used for the particle work,
Each scale division of the
micrometer represented 15 microns for the magnification used (100X).
A
portion of the sample was placed on a microscope slide and tapped gently