Accelerator mass spectrometry of long-lived heavy radionuclides

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 263-293

  Fifield, L K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 44349193381     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(07)11008-1     Document Type: Review

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