Uranium estimation in water samples collected from some areas of Himachal Pradesh, India

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 683-685

  Singh, Baldev ^a   Singh, Gurinder ^a   Sandhu, A S ^a   Singh, Surinder ^a  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FISSION REACTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ROCKS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

LEXAN DETECTOR DISC; SPRINGS; STREAMS; URANIUM ESTIMATION;

URANIUM;

EID: 0032590632     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(99)00172-9     Document Type: Article

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