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What stuccific sotivitey
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deliver the same dcse in the same length of tine?
The answer to this question depends upon the time efter detonation

to be FY3 hours, the sr ucific eat

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frruming thAc ilu:

ty walld hive to bo abest 250 uc

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for the same size prrticte.

Since the particle may bs washed off before six days have expired,
one may consider the problem another way.

What must be the specific

activity of a particle at H¥3 hours to deliver this dose in the next
24 hours?

hecording to Siraci¢svist (pace 4), only about 70% of a ples toy
dose reed be celivir.d in enc day
Aceeptirs this, then s particle with abeut tho eure ecbivity
et H/3 hours would bs sufficient to deliver an ervthena dose in or:
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