Contribution of radon to overall exposure to radiation in a ten-storey block building

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 241-244

  Mócsy, Ildikó ^a   Hunyadi, Ilona ^b   Burkhardt, Rita ^a   Fulea, Corina ^a  

^a Professor Iuliu Moldovan Institute of Public Health Cluj Napoca   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Building materials; Equivalent doses; Gamma doses; Radioactivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842549268     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X9600500408     Document Type: Article

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