The following data are abstracted from ex,¢ericental results, wherein
a thin paz souree prepared by soaking a filter payer in a solution of

phosphates, allowing it to dry, and then weasuring surface dose rates
with a surface ionization chanber.®

Thickness of source

9.6 ng/ex*

Activity of source

7740pale

Surface dose rate

.

0.127 rep/see

457

Dorage rute at depth of x centimeters

ie

repe/hr

‘

oF «5x

~

Zheoret ically

R = sos (for ¥32)
Subst ituling abowe dates

nw

Re

95 Noe72-5) (9.007) | go

DOL /ty

2

= 7,0 C repe/br

let C® 77po/ex*
Then Rk» 7 x 77

a“

= $39 repa/br at 7 ag/er® (17°)

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xteral Zirkle, Raymond X. MeGrawiiill Book
Company,

1951.

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