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Assessment of Levels of Natural Radioactivity in Sand Samples Collected from Ekalakala in Machakos County, Kenya

Construction sand is naturally polluted with radionuclides of terrestrial origin. In this study, specific activities of (238)U, (232)Th, and (40)K in 30 sand samples collected along the Ekalakala River, Machakos County, Kenya, were measured using a high-purity germanium γ-ray spectrometer. The speci...

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Autores principales:	Munyao, Lucia Nyiva, Ketui, Daniel Kipngetich, Otieno, Calford, Chege, Margaret Wairimu
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Hindawi 2020
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7222605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32425704 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/7269840

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