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Uranium Content of Normal Blood

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Carpenter and Cheek1 report concentrations of between 4.93 × 10−7 and 6.26×10−7 g/g of uranium (0.493–0.626 p.p.m.) in freeze dried blood and 73.9–93.9 × 10−9 g/3 of uranium in whole blood. Detailed studies of the concentration of uranium in human tissues, diet, air and water, undertaken at the Radiological Protection Service, suggest that these figures are very high and I believe they are unusual and are not representative of “normal” human blood. Previous measurements2–4 suggest a uranium concentration of between 4–140 × 10−10 g/g whole blood.

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HAMILTON, E. Uranium Content of Normal Blood. Nature 227, 501–502 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227501a0

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