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fallout from the barge shots Flathead and Navajo was much less and variations in abundance were not greater than a factor of twe (Reference 54).

Analytical data on cleud samples from these four events corroborated the
fallout results (References 50 and 51),
Some radiochemical analyses have been performed on particles of
different sizes from certain balloon shots (Reference 52).

In Boltzmann

of Operation PLUMBBOB, both the Sr®?; mo?” and Sr?9; Mo’? raties
were a facter of two greater in 22 micron particles than in 137-micron
particles.

Enrichment of sr89 was also found in two other balloon shots,

Hood and Wilsong

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1.2.8 Fractionation Effects (II): Relations among the R-Values_
for Several Radionuclides, As noted above, some scattered observations

on fractionation were reported from the earlier tests, but it was not until
Operation REDWINGthat enough data becameavailable to investigate the
separation of various nuclides from one another in any detail,

At event

Tewa of this operation, six particle samples were collected from different
locations in the cloud and subsequently analyzed for around thirty nuclides,
From this work, relations among the R-values for the products became

apparent which seem to be of significance for understanding the fallout
formation process (Reference 55),

The R-values for the substances studied

(mormalized to give unit intercept on the axis of ordinates) were plotted
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