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As a preliminary to a long-term investigation, eight monkeys have been injected with large doses of pure strontium-90 (25 years half-life) in equilibrium with its short-lived decay product yttrium-90. There is a higher toxicity and greater retention than in other species of animals1. Results are summarized below: 
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Vaughan, Tutt and Kidman, in “Biological Hazards of Atomic Energy”, 145 (1952).
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EDINGTON, G., JUDD, J. & WARD, A. Toxicity of Radiostrontium in Monkeys. Nature 172, 122–123 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172122b0
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