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Science 19 February 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3399, pp. 499 - 500
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3399.499
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Transport of Strontium-90 in Runoff

Ronald G. Menzel 1

1 Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

Only a small portion of the strontium-90 that fell on cultivated soils was removed in runoff. The concentration of strontium-90 was usually about 10 times higher in the soil carried by the runoff than in the soil from the plow layer of the plots. Thus, a considerable concentration of Sr90 could occur in areas where runoff sediments accumulate.

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