UNC LASSTPIED ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE FOR THE SEPARATION GF TOTAL RADIO~ FROM YEDETATION AND FooDS 3:. Ash the easple in a nickel crucible at gm°%r. 2. Estimate the amount of ash, add four times this weight of Wa,CO, and fuse. 3. Dissolve, remove silica, and collect the strontium by lh. Run a double nitrate precipitation as for bone using acid carbomate precipitation as for soil. volwmes of 200 ml for the first precipitation and 50 nl for the second. dalS @ cde UNC LASSTPIgp 00131986.054 1091083