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Science 25 November 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3439, pp. 1554 - 1555
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3439.1554
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Packaged Organic Materials as Monitoring Tools for Radionuclides

Louis G. Williams 1, Michael Howell 1, and Conrad P. Straub 1

1 Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Pint-size perforated polyethylene bags were used as containers to test preserved tea, spinach, ion-exchange resin, live filamentous green algae, and dead filamentous green algae for the sorption and concentration of radionuclides from natural aquatic habitats and from a variety of laboratory controlled nutrient media. These packaged materials have been used to detect trace levels of radionuclides not found by the usual methods of analysis of the raw water itself for dissolved radionuclides.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Relative Strontium and Calcium Uptake by Green Algae.
L. G. Williams and N. R. Kevern (1964)
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