Surface radioactivity resulting from the deposition of 222Rn daughter products.

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Health Physics

• Publication date

  1987-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1097/00004032-198704000-00001PMID 3570784
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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