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New Haven Dustfai’.
The Fe: coas of Exavbronmental Sanitation of the New Haven
Department of Health collects monthly dust-fall samples at several
stations in and around the city.
The collectors are standard 1500
ml beakers, and duplicate samples are analyzed for dust content,
one by evaporation of any rainfall and the other by filtration.
The samples supplied to HASL were measured for total MFP activity
and Sr-90, and the results are shown in Table 4.
While the data are not as complete as desired, there are
several interesting points,
l. Filtration or evaporation are equally effective for
dust-fall by weight.
Be
Filtration loses both MFP and Sr-90 by solubility.
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the agreement in activity values between stations
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is fairly good, and is independent of the dust-fall.
A comparison of the mean Sr-90 values from the evaporated
samples and the corresponding gummed film estimates (New Haven
Airport) is shown in Teble k.
It appears. that the gummed film
rather than current tests, to give better agreement.
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activity should have been attri buted to an early test-series,