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Re: Identifying contamination....
Joelle,
I am sure that you will get more complete responses.
I have seen similar distribution in activated metals from the cyclotron
beam. I do not have the actual data in front of me.
Stainless steel, Bronze.....
Generally it also may depends on what beam was used.
>machine shop. Only a portion of the metal in the bin is contaminated.
>
It looks like an activation from the beam also.
I hope this may help you.
Emil.
ekerremba@ucsd.edu
>of a head of a pin indicated three radionuclides:
>
>Units are in picoCuries per sample, since the metal fragment was too
>small for the laboratory to weigh.
>
>Cobalt 57 5823 +/- 24
>Cobalt 58 706 +/- 55
>Zinc 65 20056 +/- 104
>
>Has anyone out there seen this or something similar before? Any help
>would be appreciated.
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