Chemical composition and radioactivity in hokutolite (Plumbian barite) collected at Peito hot spring, Taiwan

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-99

  Momoshima, Noriyuki ^a   Nita, Junichi ^a   Maeda, Yonezo ^a   Sugihara, Sinji ^a   Shinno, Isamu ^a   Matsuoka, Nobuaki ^b   Huang, Chin Wang ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kyushu Environ Eval Association   (Japan)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; LEAD; LEAD 210; RADIUM 226;

BARITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HOKUTOLITE; HOT SPRING; RADIOACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PRECIPITATION; RADIOACTIVITY; TAIWAN; THERMAL SPRING;

TAIWAN, PEITO HOT SPRING;

EID: 0030761973     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(96)00104-X     Document Type: Article

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