Conceptual Integrated Science
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Author: Hewitt, Paul G., LYONS, Suzanne, (science Teacher), Suchocki, John, Yeh, Jennifer (jennifer Jean)
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Chapter 16, Problem 76TE
Survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki developed leukemia and other forms of cancer at unusually high rates. Explain why.
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