“…In contrast to certain other metal ions such as Au III (Gachard et al, 1998), Ir III (Mills and Henglein, 1985), Pt II (Keghouche, 1983), Pd II (Michaelis and Henglein, 1992), etc for which the monovalent ions are stable, at least at low doses (Gachard et al, 1998), no induction time (Fig. 1, inset) is observed in the increase of the Rh n absorbance with the g-irradiation dose.…”