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THE importance of milk as a dietary source of calcium and other important nutrients makes it desirable to develop methods for use in removing radiostrontium from milk in the event that the concentration of the radioisotopes of strontium in this food should become a health hazard. Migicovsky1 has employed a synthetic resin in the mixed calcium, potassium, and sodium forms to remove substantial amounts of the radioisotopes of strontium and cæsium from contaminated milk. A large amount of resin to the volume of milk treated is required by this method.
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SINGER, L., ARMSTRONG, W. Removal of Strontium from Milk. Nature 186, 484–485 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186484b0
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