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Table XII.
Plate No.
4032
4033
hO34
4035 ,
4036a
Loay
Physical Decay Rates of Rongelap Samples
Date and
Island
3/26/54
Kabelle
r=t*; ty = March 1. 1954
Substance or
Organism
damsel fish
re
tl
nt
tl
"
"
I
squirrel fish
HO4s
i
#
"
"
ONT
4O48
KOO
“
"
tt
"
"
{t
“
tt
4051
Ce
u
"
t
KO46
4050
4052
4O54
4053
4O55
4056
it
Hf
tt
tf
parrot fish
"
a
4057
"
"
"
it
4059
"
i]
4o58
5000
5006
ow
tt
50574
2
3
2
2
1.49
1.42
1.33
1.64
skin
3
1.62
gut
sea cucumber
shore crab
1.59
liver
3
1.86
gill
2
1.28
gut
skjn
2
1.53
1.61
muscle
bone
1.30
1.63
1.45
gut~
2
1.58
2
-1.30
4
1.77
liver
gill
skin
muscle
bone
liver &
3
2
2
2
1.71
41.47
1.95
2.96
mantle
muscle
33
23
1.28
1.27
mass
mantle
muscle
"
18
13
13
14
1.14
1.15
1.24
1.38
mill
46
mill
15
1.13
stem
leaves
bone
liver
34
1.31
33
17
13
1.29
1.60
1.28
"
kidney
13
31
gastric
gastric
6009
Messerschmidia
debarked
6018
7002
7003
7021
7030
7032
Boernaavia
curlew
2
2
y
2
coconut crab
TO4O
2.11
4
bone
5078
Labared j sooty tern
Kabelile
fairy tern
sooty tern
2
muscle
visceral
spider snail
"
No. of
XK,
Times Decay
Counted Rate
skin
muscle
bone
liver
gut
giant clam
5008a
5016
5017
5023
Tissue
"
"
(4-1ife ~80-d)
13
1.31
15
1.83, >90 days
1.36
1.17,< 90 days
1.59, >90 days