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Radioactivity in Coenobita (land hermit crab)
Appendix Table l.
Tissues Collected at Belle Island, Eniwetok Atoll
(Values in thousands of disintegrations per minute per gram wet,
corrected to date of collection)
Specimen
No.
115
116
117:
Date
of
collection
4/15/54
'
"
137
5/17/54
139
"
141
5/18/54
138
142
143
149
1590
151
Carapace
12.06
Av.
52.0
'
"
"
5/20/54
"
"
9.07
14.06
12.1
87.1
Av.
71.6
70.2
153
153
5/21/54
"
"
162
5/22/54
201
5/26/54
203
"
202
"
"
a
"
"
48.8
60.6
195
71.5
143
giand
Gut
7.17
17.'
7.59
10.9
8.55
14 st
21.°
17.4
934
2,370
(1,570
912
2,760
191
635
969
938
9,400
4,840
300
1,200
520
1,420
3,260
1,300
Av. 133
77.9
287
1,010
2,200
319
89.4
142
71.3
393
112
236
55.9
70.8
141
125
33.9
91.2
Av. 92.4
117
160
82.2
3.61
2.65
2.85
3.03
Digestive
222
340
Av. 135
162
163
164
165
4 86
3.34
3.10
3.76
Gill
62.4
89.0
106
142
Av. 261
154
155
Muscle
|
Wh .7
108
80.7
94.1
114
ho.4
82.8
2u.g
777
578
827
1,360
2,410
165
727
1,510
229
95.2
96.8
833
877
177
6,470
140
629
4 060
73.6
199
152
147
53
115
108
582
435
94.3
201
302
44.0
127
178 ©
158
39.5
Av. 145
37.0
756
90.5
263
52.3
42.0
20.1
31.2
34.1
23.5
2,040
67.8
138
5,510
205
190
345
318
1,290
320
493
473
285
97.1
166
235
97.3
161
331
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