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Plutonium-239 and other Nuclides in Ground-Level Air and Human Lungs During Spring 1962

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OSBORNE, R. Plutonium-239 and other Nuclides in Ground-Level Air and Human Lungs During Spring 1962. Nature 199, 143–146 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199143a0

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