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Fixation of Iodine in Selenium
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Fixation of Iodine in Selenium

  • R. A. HYMAN1 &
  • D. H. TOMLIN2 

Nature volume 176, page 977 (1955)Cite this article

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THE following observations were made in carrying out some tracer experiments on the selenium–iodine system, using the radioactive isotope iodine-131.

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  1. Nijland, L. M., Philips Research Reports, 9, 259 (1954).

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  1. Standard Telecommunications Laboratories, Enfield

    R. A. HYMAN

  2. Physics Department, University of Reading,

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HYMAN, R., TOMLIN, D. Fixation of Iodine in Selenium. Nature 176, 977 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176977a0

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