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Radioactive Contamination of Contemporary Lead

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  1. Department of Physics, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    RICHARD I. WELLER

  2. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico

    ERNEST C. ANDERSON & JOHN L. BARKER jun.

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Illinois

    ERNEST C. ANDERSON & JOHN L. BARKER jun.

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WELLER, R., ANDERSON, E. & BARKER, J. Radioactive Contamination of Contemporary Lead. Nature 206, 1211–1212 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2061211a0

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