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Table
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Strontium-90, strontium units and calcium content in land plants, soils, rats, birds
algae, bottom sediments, invertebrates and fish from Bikini Atoll, August 1964.
Values in picocuries per gram of dry weight.
Tsland and
group
BIKINI
Soil
®@
Common name, and genus or species Tissue
Sr”
90
pci/g
Strontium
units
Mg Ca/g
I.
0-1/2"
Pit 11
1800+110*
7100+440
1/2"~1"
Pit Ll
1300+82
4800+ 300 L
270
Pit Ll
5.6+0.38
17+1.2
320
10"-11"
Pit 11
0.021+0.077
0.073+0.26
290
15"-20"
Pit 11
0.072+0.050
0.33+0.23
220
20"-26"
Pit 11
0.16+0.055
0.052+0.18
300
0-1/2"
Pit 12
1/2"—-1"
5813.6
180t11
320 ©
Pit 12
6043.7
180+11
340
5"-6"
Pit 12
18t1.1
4813.0
370
10"-12"
Pit 12
0.49+0.11
1.5+0.33
320
15"-20"
Pit 12
0.34+0.086
1.1+0.27
320
0.34+2.1
6900+430
5.00
0.90t0.069
1300+97
0.71
56 6"
L
250
Land plants
Arrow
root
Tacca leontopetaloides
Cocos nucifera
*
Counting error
Whole
Meat
corm