Activation Analysis of Soluble and Fixed Sodium in Mammalian Hair
- 3 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3762), 588-589
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3762.588
Abstract
Antelope hair was soaked in sodium-22 to simulate external contamination and then systematically washed to remove all traces of the sodium; progress of the wash was followed by gamma-ray spectrometry. Hair was then activated by neutron bombardment which showed sodium still present as sodium-24. It is concluded that a fraction of sodium in hair can be readily washed away with water and that a second fraction is held in the hair in such a manner that extended washing does not remove it. This suggests that sodium in two states may be associated with hair, one as an external contaminant and the other as a more nearly integral part of the hair.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Activation Analysis of Ungulate HairScience, 1966