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June 1, 1941

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To Find 1000

A Pinhead-Sized Bit of Radium Can't Long Hide from a Physicist in a Ten-Acre Lot

By R. Burton Rose

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This article was originally published with the title “To Find 1000” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 164 No. 6 (June 1941), p. 353
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0641-353

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