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Contamination of Leaves by Radioactive Fall-out

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ATTEMPTS have been made to evaluate the factors relating to the rate of fall-out and the cumulative deposition by means of multiple regression techniques using data for milk1 and total diet2 obtained over a long period of observations. Field and laboratory experiments also provided results.

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YAMAGATA, N. Contamination of Leaves by Radioactive Fall-out. Nature 198, 1220–1221 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1981220b0

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