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360

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TABLE J]
ANALYSIS OF SEA WATER

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Sample no.

Location

Mig
|4 3
bs 3

228
33
32

27° 47'N 67° 35'W
27° 47'N 67° 35'W
27° 47'N 67° 35'W

Dec. 1968
Dec. 1968
Dec. 1968

15+0.5
26+0.5
2.6+0.7

i 4

267

36° 23'N 70° 3° W

June 1969

2640.8

me

269

36°23'N 70°3'W

June 1969

1.4+0.2

tak

| :

268

36°23'N 70° 3'W

Date

June 1969

2

am

729 Py
{d.p.m. per 1000 kg)

Std. dev.

0.6

2320.5

36°23'N 70°3'W

June 1969

Rel

rae

389

WHOI Aquarium

Aug. 1970

2.94+0.8

0.3

13

390

line

Aug. 1970

- td
ne

207
208

IAEA STD.1
Seawater|

1970
1970

12345
11645

*

210

Seawater |

1970

118+6

DOB

209

ms

211

3

213

:

;
;

;

;

A
+

ye :

rE
f :

Seawater |

Seawater 2

1970

1970

s
;

316 +18

1970

298412

214

Seawater 2

1970

313+15

Seawater 2

1970

-

1
P

,

I

324421

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TABLE III

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ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTS

,

Sample no.

Location

Date

739 Py
(d.p.m. per kg dry wt.}°

Std. dev.

13
13-R
16

Cape Cod, Mass.
Cape Cod, Mass.
Cape Cad, Mass.

1968

7247
80+2
82+6

6

Cape Cod, Mass.

1968
1968
1968

202

Bombay, India

1970

374+ 15

7

16-R
203

204

:
a

* The + values are the | o of the counting error.

.

3

144+8

Seawater 2

t

-

25-04

212

:

07

270

fy

<
=

7

per 3

ane

%

Bombay,India

Bombay,India

1970

1970

8442

389+ 15

iM

A

i

ft

23

a-

374415

.

° The + values are the 1 o of the counting error.

ij

Replicate analysis

Analyses of sea water, sediments and organisms are shown in Tables II-IV.
The average standard deviationof the replicates is well within the I ¢ counting errorof

the samples (except for sea-water samples No. 207-210).

co
at

,

Contamination and blank activity
Little or no plutonium-239 contamination was found in reagent and simulated

.

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:

I

Er
tol
of

pri

Su

to

det
Op<

hal

sea-water blanks (Table V). The simulated sea-water samples were obtained from deep
.
.
:
toe
3
oil well brine known to befree offall-out radioactivities. The average 7°? Pu concen-

.
.

Anal. Chim. Acta. 36 (1971) 355-364

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