Behaviour of radionuclides in the presence of superplasticiser

Advances in Cement Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-43

  Young, Amy J ^a   Warwick, Peter ^b   Milodowski, Antoni E ^c   Read, David ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Enviras Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLAST FURNACES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FLY ASH; METALS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PORTLAND CEMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES;

ADSORPTION FROM SOLUTION; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BLENDED CEMENT; CEMENTITIOUS; CONSTRUCTION SECTORS; FLOW PROPERTIES; NICKEL-63; PORE WATERS; SELECTED METALS; SUPERPLASTICIZERS;

SLAGS;

EID: 84878077054     PISSN: 09517197     EISSN: 17517605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/adcr.12.00032     Document Type: Article

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