Date of Award:
5-1962
Document Type:
Dissertation
Degree Name:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department:
Watershed Sciences
Department name when degree awarded
Fishery Biology
Committee Chair(s)
William F. Sigler
Committee
William F. Sigler
Committee
William T. Helm
Abstract
Background radioactivity from radium has long existed in ground and surface waters of the United States, but in the last 15 years radium has become a consequential unnatural contaminant of waters (Coulomb, 1955; Rone, 1952; Schlundt, 1910; Scott and Barker, 1956; Scott, 1961; and Tsivoglou et al., 1958). The onset of the atomic age initiated the increased processing of uranium ore for its uranium content. Radium is a daughter product and a by-product of uranium ore and its purification (Glasstone, 1958; and Tsivoglou et al., 1958). The uranium refinery wastes are released into streams in which all forms of aquatic life are exposed to the radioactivity of the radium contaminated waters.
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Recommended Citation
Linn, D. Wayne, "The Effects of Radium on Certain Goldfish Blood Constituents and Organs" (1962). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 1584.
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