Radon: An Overview of Health Effects

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 745-753

  Field, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha particle; Carcinogen; Decay products; Environmental; Epidemiology; Indoor air; Ionizing radiation; Lung cancer; Polonium 214; Polonium 218; Radiation; Radioactive; Radon; Radon decay product; Radon gas; Radon 222; Residential; Risk; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869222957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00095-7     Document Type: Chapter

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