Published April 5, 2006 | Version v1
Book

Chemical and radioactive contaminants of the environment

  • 1. Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 84215 Bratislava (Slovakia)

Description

This book contains some selected chapters of radiochemistry and radioecology as well as monitoring of the chemical and radioactive contamination of the environment. The book is dedicated for the workers of police; customs officers; civil safeguarding; public health and other services as well as for students and PhD students. This book consists of the following chapters: Foreword; (1) Radioecology; (2) Natural radioactivity; (3) System quality in chemical and radiochemical laboratories; (4) Determination methods of important contaminants; (5) Detectors of particles and photons; (6) Monitoring of the environment - sampling; (7) Monitoring of chemical contamination of the environment and analytical-chemical monitoring; (8) Decontamination; (9) Radiation protection; (10) Introduction to radiobiology; (11) Rules of safe transportation of radioactive substances

Availability note (English)

Available from Jozef Kuruc - Omega Info; Vysehradska 33, 851 06 Bratislava, Slovakia; e-mail: info@omegainfo.sk; Web site: http://www.omegainfo.sk/. The book was published in several different forms, the printed soft-cover version and in electronic form (CD-ROM). CD-ROM as the electronic book is the exact copy of the printed version in the PDF format. CD also contains lectures in Microsoft PowerPoint and PDF formats.

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Slovak)
Chemicke a radioaktivne kontaminanty zivotneho prostredia

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Jozef Kuruc - Omega Info
Imprint Place
Bratislava (Slovakia)
ISBN
80-969290-5-4
Imprint Pagination
305 p.

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