Determination of uranium and thorium contents inside different materials using track detectors and mean critical angles

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-215

  Misdaq, M A ^a   Bakhchi, A ^a   Ktata, A ^a   Merzouki, A ^a   Youbi, N ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; THORIUM; URANIUM;

SOLID STATE NUCLEAR TRACK DETECTORS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

THORIUM; URANIUM;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032957561     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00190-0     Document Type: Article

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