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Maddinger. 2. 4.30 P.M. Div. read 50 to 45 14' 20" .00581 d/p/s. 4.50 P.M. "! 45 !f 40 14'2" 00593 d/p/s. Standard " 50 " 44 32 ° 23" 00308 d/p/s. Because of more recent investigation I have adopted the factor 0.000150 as the net drift produced by one microgram of radium rather than the factor 0.000085 which we took in our early work. This is the factor used by the Public Health Service and was confirmed by Dr. Schlundt and myself. Using the factor .000150 a/p/s I estimate that the gamma ray test made with Mrs Maddinger facing the table shows the presence of 10 micro- grams of radium. If the old standard were used this would be raised to 17.8 micrograms. With Mrs Maddingers back to the instrument we estimate the quantity of radio-active material present to be 18.6 micrograms by our present standard or 33.8 by the old standard. Expired Air Test. The test on the expired air was made in Room e -420 using the ionization chamber marked S.P. 1009. The readings were made with the Lind Electroscope. Natural Leake: 12.45 P.M. Div read 89 to 83 501 58" 00196 d/p/s/. 1.45 P.M. " 83 " 74 761 26" 00196 d/p/s/ Mrs Maddinger blew ligivoly her expired air into the ionization chamber for four minutes, the expired air passing through three towers, one containing CaCl, a second soda-lime and the last one cotton before entering the cham- er itself. a minute was allowed before making readings, altho the fall of the leaf was noted to detect the presence of any mesothorium during that time. 3.20 P.M. Div read 90 to 75 35°39" 00748 d/p/s. increase in fall .00552 d/p/s. 4.23 ff 11 93 ff 77 331 50" 00874 d/p/s. increase in fall .00688 d/p/s. 5.20 " " 93 " 77 30' 38" 00870 d/p/s. increas .00684 d/p/s. 6.20 " " 97 !! 86 19 13" ,00954 d/p/s. increase 00758 d/p/s. My experience does not permit me to give any estimation as to the amount of radium this increase in leake represents. It all depends on how the radium is deposited in the body and my experiments indicate that this va- ries with the animal. But taking Dr. Schlundt's method for estimation we would say that the net positive drift in this case indicated 1.50 micro- grams of radium.

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