Radon exhalation rate and uranium estimation study of some soil and rock samples from Tusham ring complex, India using SSNTD technique

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Singh, Harmanjit ^a   Singh, Joga ^a   Singh, Surinder ^a   Bajwa, B S ^a  

^a GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Detectors; Exhalation rate; Granite; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ALKALINE EARTH METALS; ATMOSPHERICS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION; RADIUM; SOILS; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; FISSION TRACKS; HARYANA; HEAT PRODUCING; RADON EMANATION; RADON EXHALATION RATE; ROCK SAMPLES; SOIL SAMPLES; TRACK DETECTORS; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; URANIUM CONTENTS; VOLCANICS; WIDE-RANGE;

RADON;

EID: 48549105141     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2008.04.060     Document Type: Article

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