On the fate of 220Rn in soil material in dependence of water content: Implications from field and laboratory experiments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 298-299, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-122

  Huxol, Stephan ^a,b   Brennwald, Matthias S ^a   Hoehn, Eduard ^a   Kipfer, Rolf ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Emanation; Radon; Rn 220; Soil water content; Thoron

Indexed keywords

DETECTION SYSTEM; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EMANATION; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; RN-220; SOIL GAS; SOIL MATERIALS; SOIL PORES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; THORON; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER FILM; WATER FLOWS;

DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; LABORATORIES; LAMINAR FLOW; MANGANESE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SOIL MOISTURE;

RADON;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; RADON ISOTOPE; SOIL WATER; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84857038076     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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