Abstract
RECENT reviews of those chemical reactions induced by ionizing radiation which have possible applications for dosimetry have directed attention to the paucity of satisfactory systems useful in the dose-range up to a few hundred rads1,2. To fill this need, solutions of certain coloured solutes in chloroform and in carbon tetrachloride and in these solvents mixed with alcohol have recently been proposed3,4. We have just completed a more detailed examination of some of these with results which, in our view, are not encouraging.
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WILKINSON, J., FITCHES, H. Effect of Gamma-Rays on Dithizone in some Organic Solvents. Nature 179, 863–864 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179863a0
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