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Fogging of photographic film by radioactive contaminants in cardboard packaging material

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev.; (United States)
After the detonation of the experimental atom bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945, a radioactive contaminant was encountered in strawboard material used by the Eastman Kodak Co. for packaging photographic sensitive films. This paperboard was manufd. in a mill situated at Vincennes, Indiana on the Wabash River. A run of strawboard, produced on August 6, 1945, showed this new and unusual type of radioactive contaminant.
OSTI ID:
5337490
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev.; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev.; (United States) Vol. 76; ISSN PHRVA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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