Radon Measurements by Etched Track Detectors
Subtitle: Applications in Radiation Protection, Earth Sciences and the Environment
Contributors: S. A. Durrani (Editor); Radomir Ilic (Editor)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: May 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9789810226664
Subjects: Chemical pollution; Earth Sciences; Environmental science; Nuclear chemistry, photochemistry & radiation; Radioactivity; Science; Technique; Science/Mathematics; Radon; Environmental Engineering & Technology; Nuclear Physics; Measurement; Physics; Nuclear track detectors
First sentence: Two isotopes of radon were discovered in 1900 - thoron (later recognized as 220Rn) by R.B. Owens and E. Rutherford, and radon (later identified as 222Rn) by F. E. Dorn (see Cook, 1961).