Nature 199, 60 - 61 (06 July 1963); doi:10.1038/199060a0

Tritium Content of Antarctic Snow

S. P. SHEN, S. A. KORFF & H. A. C. NEUBURG

Department of Physics, New York University, University Heights, New York 53.

THE abundance of tritium in Nature is of much geophysical interest^1–3. In view of the present paucity of data on Antarctic tritium, we are reporting here determinations made on three Antarctic snow samples collected by one of us (H. A. C. N.) during 1960–61.

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