Radon as a naturally occurring tracer for the assessment of residual NAPL contamination of aquifers

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 920-927

  Schubert, Michael ^a   Paschke, Albrecht ^a   Lau, Steffen ^a   Geyer, Wolfgang ^a   Knöller, Kay ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contamination; groundwater; NAPL; Partitioning tracer; Radon

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS; NON-AQUEOUS PHASE-LIQUIDS (NAPL); PARTITIONING TRACERS;

RADON;

GROUND WATER; RADON;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACER;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRESH WATER; MATHEMATICS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADON; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33846418836     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.04.029     Document Type: Article

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