Radium-226 in human diet and bone.
The mean radium-226 content of samples of vertebrae from New York City and San Francisco is 0.032 and 0.026 picocuries of radium-226 per gram of calcium, respectively. The ratio of these two mean values is associated with a similar ratio of radium-226 to calcium found in the diet at the two locations. A plot of the radium-226 content of bone as a function of age indicates that there is no marked difference in levels of bone radium with age.
D001842:Bone and Bones; D002118:Calcium; D004032:Diet; D005506:Food Contamination; D005507:Food Contamination, Radioactive; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City; D011851:Radioactivity; D011868:Radioisotopes; D011883:Radium; D012495:San Francisco
D011868:Radioisotopes; D002118:Calcium; D011883:Radium
BONE AND BONES; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; RADIUM