Abstract
THE abundance of tritium in Nature is of much geophysical interest1–3. In view of the present paucity of data on Antarctic tritium, we are reporting here determinations made on three Antarctic snow samples collected by one of us (H. A. C. N.) during 1960–61.
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SHEN, S., KORFF, S. & NEUBURG, H. Tritium Content of Antarctic Snow. Nature 199, 60–61 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199060a0
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