Re: Rad query on earthworms

["William H. Biggley" <wbiggley@jhu.edu>]

Go to <google.com>
Type in <earthworms radioactivity>
Approximately 70 hits are registered, some look very interesting!
wbiggley@jhu.edu






At 12:10 AM 02/09/2000 -0600, Ron L. Kathren wrote:
>Curious question, but just off the top of my head (there being no hair there
>to impede this opinion) I am unaware of any bioconcentration by earthworms,
>and thus would suspect that the chief radionuclide is K-40, at a
>concentration similar to that in tissue.  What an idea for a thesis topic .
>.  .
>
>Ron Kathren
>
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>From: <Rick_Strickert@radian.com>
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>Subject: Rad query on earthworms
>
>
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know, off the top of their head, typical
>> concentrations of natural radioactive isotopes in earthworms...  Or a
>> reference to same?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> Richard G Strickert, Ph.D.
>> Radian International
>> Austin, TX
>>
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