Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Nov 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975esrv...11..291f&link_type=abstract
Earth Science Reviews, Volume 11, Issue 4, p. 291-335.
Statistics
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Since the discovery that ionizing tracks left by highly energetic nuclei can be made visible through optical microscopes by proper etching, the field of particle track studies has blossomed at a rate equalled only by the growth of the porno-film industry. The analytic applications alone are probably unique in the wide range of results and fields of study that have evolved from a single technique. PTA has been used to study the abundance and distribution of the lightest elements, Li and B, and the heaviest elements, U and Th, in every conceivable type of matrix, from blood to ultramafic rocks, in every conceivable locale, from the bottom of the seas to the surface of the moon. It has been used to study the distribution in the cosmic radiation of all the naturally-occurring chemical elements, to search in our laboratories and in extra-terrestrial samples for superheavy elements that no one has yet succeeded in making, and to search in all samples accessible to us for those exotic creations of the intellect, magnetic monopoles. And, since the rate of publication of PTA papers is still — in 1974 — accelerating, the second dozen years should be even more bewildering than the first.
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