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TECHNICAL REPORT

The Effect of Some Soil Characteristics on Soil Radon Concentration and Radon Exhalation from Soil Surface

Kainan SUN Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Qiuju GUO Department of Technical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Jianping Cheng Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
Pages 1113-1117 | Received 29 Apr 2004, Accepted 07 Jul 2004, Published online: 15 Feb 2012

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