Measurements of radon concentration and the role of earth tides in a gypsum mine in Walferdange, Luxembourg

Health Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 154-162

  Lenzen, M ^a   Neugebauer, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Geology; Radon progeny; Scintillation chamber

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; RADON 220; RADON 222; RADON;

AIR SAMPLING; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; LUXEMBOURG; MINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; AIR; GRAVITY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WEATHER;

AIR; GRAVITATION; LUXEMBOURG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 0032711863     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199908000-00005     Document Type: Article

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