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EVEN if care is taken to ensure constant conditions of irradiation, both with respect to the dosage of fast and slow neutrons, as well as ionizing radiation and heat, and if the post-irradiation treatments are exactly the same ; the reproducibility of measurements of the retention of activity in the chemical state of the target molecules, following thermal neutron capture in solids, is generally less than the measurement techniques employed would lead one to expect.
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MADDOCK, A., VARGAS, J. Influence of Crystal Defects on the Szilard-Chalmers Process in Solids. Nature 184, 1931 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841931a0
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