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Effect on Radiosensitivity of Inert Gases: Effect of Inert Gases on Oxygen-dependent Radiosensitivity

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  1. Medical Research Council Experimental Radiopathology Research Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, W.12.

    MICHAEL EBERT & SHIRLEY HORNSEY

  2. British Empire Cancer Campaign Research Unit in Radiobiology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middx

    ALMA HOWARD

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EBERT, M., HORNSEY, S. & HOWARD, A. Effect on Radiosensitivity of Inert Gases: Effect of Inert Gases on Oxygen-dependent Radiosensitivity. Nature 181, 613–616 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181613a0

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