ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES ON FREE RADICALS PRODUCED BY Tβ-PARTICLES IN FROZEN H2O AND D2O MEDIA AT LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE

Abstract
Samples of H2O and D2O and solutions of H2O2, HClO4, HF, etc., in light and heavy water, were tritiated with T2O to activities of from 0.1 to 1 c/ml.The paramagnetic resonance spectra recorded at liquid nitrogen temperature and interpreted as representing H (D) atoms and OH (OD), HO2(DO2) free radicals were compared with those induced under analogous conditions by Co60γ-rays.The lower radical yields observed in the present work have been ascribed to the difference in linear energy transfer between Tβ-particles and more penetrating radiations.