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Ionium Determination in Deep-Sea Sediments

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MEASUREMENTS carried out in the Oceanographical Institute, Göteborg, on the radium content in deep-sea cores by H. Pettersson, Traude Bernert, V. Kröll1 et al. showed the vertical distribution of radium to be highly complicated. We were therefore asked to develop a method for direct measurement of the ionium content in samples of sediment from the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition.

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ISAAC, N., PICCIOTTO, E. Ionium Determination in Deep-Sea Sediments. Nature 171, 742–743 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171742b0

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