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IT is necessary to know the natural concentration of common caesium in various organisms in order to predict the equilibrium distribution of caesium-137 in the biosphere. Advance in this field of knowledge is very slow, due perhaps to the difficulty of estimating very small concentrations of caesium in biological systems. The most significant contribution in this direction is that of Japanese scientists, who have estimated caesium-133 by activation analysis1–4. In the present work common caesium was measured by the isotopic dilution method with the mass-spectrometer MI-1305 (ref. 5). Potassium was measured with the Zeiss flame photometer. Muscle of fish from the Barents Sea and the Black Sea, and muscle of some birds of passage, of cows, reindeer and human beings have been used in this work.
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BUROVINA, I., FLEISHMAN, D., NESTEROV, V. et al. Concentration of Common Caesium in Animal and Human Muscles. Nature 205, 1116–1117 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051116a0
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