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THE preparation of Fe59 by (slow n,γ) reaction on potassium ferrocyanide has been described by Dewhurst and Miller1. The reaction is of the Szilard -Chalmers type, so that the active iron could be obtained by precipitation on aluminium hydroxide at specified pH ; three precipitations were necessary to obtain ‘a clean 47-day activity'.
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Nat. Res. Coun. Canada Report, C.R.C. 351.
Cf. Livingood and Seaborg, Phys. Rev., 54, 51 (1938). Deutsch, Downing, Elliott, Irvine and Roberts, ibid., 62, 3 (1942).
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KENNY, A., MATON, W. Preparation of Pure Iron-59 of High Specific Activity. Nature 162, 567–568 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162567a0
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