with Krylon.

technique.

Use of nuclear emulsion striroing filn is the better

However, because of the unavailability of the stripping

film, the majority of the work was done using the autoradiographic
techniques described above.
All diameter measurements were made on one axis enly using an
optical microscope with a micrometer eyepiece. The least count of the
micrometer was 2h.
Each plate was scanned and measurements on the radioactive
particles were recorded. The minimum diameter of varticles measured

in this analysis was of the order of 5 p..

401.3

Particle Density Measurements

An optical microscope having a calibrated micrometer eyepiece
was used to measure particle diameters along 2 axes. Relative activities
were deternined wit! a gamma scintillation counter under conditions
identical to those used in counting the gross samples from the Jviffer
ential fallout collector.
Particle density was determined by a flotation methoc. with mixtures of bromobenzene and bromoform as the liquid phase. Ina liquid
system containing only two components, the densities and refractive
index valves are an additive function of the compositions. Corresponding densities and index of refraction with composition are available
from the literature. Pure bromobenzene has a density of 1.499 ané an

index of refraction of 1.5460 while pure bromoform has a density of 2.290
and an index of refraction of 1.598.
Each particle was pleced in a precision l-ml glass-stoppered

volumetric flask half filled with a solution of density approximating 2.

Inverting the flack allowed vertical movement of the particle along the
flask stem. Drops of the appropriate liquid then were added and mixed
until vertical movement of the particle ceased, indicating that the densities of the liquid and particle were identical. an Abbe refractometer
was used to determine the index of refraction of the resulting liquid
and hence its density from the known relationshins.

4.2

DATA REDUCTION

Equation 2.1 implied a constent ratio between the measured sanple
activity and the infinite gamma field at the sampling station. This
implication was found to he valid only for the gummed paper collectors.
‘The ratio was not constant when anplied to the total collectors,

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Total Collectors
All measurements of gamma activity were made in the 47

ionize-

tion chamber, Anvendix B tabulates all data as measured. Where activity
in the total collectors was found to exist in both the liquid and solic
phases the total activity for that collector was determined by simply

adding the liquid and solid phase measured values.. she data from the
land stations, after being converted to equivalent mr/hr values, were
compered to the equivalent field survey data obtained by both Task Force

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