a eet te ' the non-fat fraction, 7 ad shale ne PR estates AeeM tain . Maticef making strontium-90 ate hee REAanRinnd NE taco ‘ die. a ~oe pata ne wee | cast wit os wir a ad determinations impractical | with the facilities available. All counting was done with an Anton end-window: geiger tube, ' | number 1001-T, which was standardized against a National Bureau of [ Standards strontium-90 standard. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The ratio of wet to dry weight and the fat content of the liver samples are presented in Table 1. The fat constituted an average of 47 percent by weight on a wet basis with a standard deviation of 9.71, and 74 percent by weight on a dry weight basis with a standard deviation of 9.29. age ratio of wet to dry weight was 1.603, The aver- with a standard deviation of 0.156, indicating that the moisture level of the samples was relatively constant. Strontium-90 levels expressed as disintegrations per minute per gram of non-fat solids and of total solids given on a dry weight and a wet weight Fee oe eee basis are presented in Table 2. i , Table 3 presents the gross beta activity in the fat and non-fat fractions of the liver. Although fat constituted an average of 47 percent of the wet F 7 weight and 74 percent of the dry weight (Table 1) of the total solids, gross £ beta activity of the fat fraction amounted to less than 0.5 percent of the Fa 4 total sample on a wet weight basis, and less than 1.0 percent on a dry i oP rap Ae iat :

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