Seasonal changeability of indoor radon concentrations in one-family house

Nukleonika

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-36

  Karpińska, Maria ^a   Mnich, Zenon ^a   Kapala, Jacek ^a   Antonowicz, Krzysztof ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Radon; Seasonal changes

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POLAND; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 18544402172     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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