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increases as you go away.
DR. BRUES:
So that the real figure
for what has descended is between the last two
depending on the ratio between the lact two
variables.
-One that the paper may reject is
strontium and the other --
DR. DUNHAM?
When you say 50 per
cent loss, it may have been only 15 per cent
loes if there was real fractionation,
DR. J. HARLEY?
§0 per cent is
the figure you select becauce then you will
be nearest the truth no matter which way you
go.
(Laughter)
DR. DUNHAM:
.
Just 50 per cent of
the general activity, but if there is real
fractionation with the factor of four to one,
that you only have ten or fifteen per oent
of the strontium that actually wae lost.
DR. J. HARLEY:
It doesn't appear
that the factor would be that bad,
Por example, the Teapot,
It looked
like about two and a half per cent strontium in