Radioactive rock phosphate: The feed stock of phosphate fertilizers used in Pakistan

Health Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 361-370

  Tufail, M ^a   Akhtar, Nasim ^b   Waqas, M ^c  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

226Ra; 232Th; 40K; Dose assessment

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; POTASSIUM; RADON; THORIUM; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MICROCOMPUTER; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

FERTILIZERS; GAMMA RAYS; PHOSPHATES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM;

EID: 33645107650     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000180772.73150.aa     Document Type: Article

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