Published June 1994
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Journal article
Gamma spectrometric determination of radium in water samples taken from an uranium mining area
Creators
Description
Radium isotopes have been determined by low-level gamma spectrometry of barium sulphate precipitates from leaching solutions, and from waste-, river-, and fresh-water which have been collected from an uranium mine and their vicinity. It was found out that in case of a sulphate rich environment radium is fixed at solid matter and actinium is transported into the aquatic medium. Its decay to Ra-223 causes an enhanced Ra-223/Ra-226 ratio
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Russian)
- Гамма-спектрометрическое определение радия в пробах воды, взятых из зоны уранового рудника
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Zhurnal Analiticheskoj Khimii
- Journal Volume
- 49
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 132-134.
- ISSN
- 0044-4502
- CODEN
- ZAKHA8
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Russian Federation
- Country of Input or Organization
- Russian Federation
- INIS RN
- 26014151
- Subject category
- S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BARIUM SULFATES; COPRECIPITATION; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTOPE RATIO; LEACHATES; RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RADIUM 223; RADIUM 226; SAMPLE PREPARATION; URANIUM MINES; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON 14 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISPERSIONS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; MINES; MIXTURES; NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPY; SULFATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES