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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2010 Aug;99(2):233–251. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b186ff

Table 1.

Solubility of total radioactivity from local fallout as a function of particle size, data from the Nevada Test Site (NTS) on particles collected six days after detonation (from LeRoy et al., 1966).

Particle size (μm) Fraction of activity leached in HCl at pH 1.0
∼ 500 ∼ 0.06
180 0.19
90 0.42