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Ag I said before, we have used

this quite extensively in the laboratory to

obtain an isotope of zirconium say, for

Placing in a solution that we wanted to run

first as development work zirconium lonium
and we have to determine whether the solution
is pure and then of course, in the case of
two samples, to see if the isotopes precipitator is best for what procedure has been worked
out for them,

Other applications that we have found

to apply are such things as equilibrium state

of urnnium and thorium waterg by having a set
of standards to pitch blend and uranium oxide
we can plot these against an unknown sample of
uranium bearing ore and determine the state of
equilibrium that it is in,
The last topic I would like to
mention is the elucidation of some of the
decay ~- in running a tremendous number of
these absorption ourves and checking with
standard N.B.8. data, we have discovered a
few discrepancies and one 1a a fairly well

studied isotope cesium barium 137, and mush

work has been done on this Lsotope spectroscopically, but none has been done absorption=
wise.

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