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the formation of these active entities which may be largely responsible 

 for effects heretofore attributed to the hit itself. 



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DISCUSSION 



KORNBERG : 



Burton differentiated between the production of OH radicals, etc., and the 

 direct effect of radiation on solute molecules with resultant activation followed 

 in certain cases by decomposition. Perhaps, if the ratio of the two effects were 

 known in some simple but fairly representative biological medium, a reasonable 



