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Experiences made with tritium-containing water used as tracer in laboratory experiments with fluvioglacial gravels

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Batch tests performed on 11 different Bavarian fluvioglacial gravels led to tritium distribution coefficients, which deviated not or only insignificantly from zero within the range of experimental accuracy applied to routine testings. The result of nine flow experiments in a gravelfilled column was a mean retardation factor of 1.01 +- 0.01. These experiments thus showed - as it had been expected - that 3HHO is not significantly delayed with regard to the flow or movement of the water. (orig.)

Abstract (German)

Batch-Versuche an 11 verschiedenen fluvioglazialen Kiesen aus Bayern ergaben Verteilungskoeffizienten fuer Tritium, die sich im Rahmen der experimentellen Genauigkeit bei Routineversuchen nicht oder nur geringfuegig von 0 unterscheiden. Neun Stroemungsversuche in einer kiesgefuellten Saeule ergaben einen mittleren Retardationsfaktor von 1,01 +- 0,01 und zeigten damit erwartungsgemaess, dass 3HHO gegenueber der Wasserbewegung nicht merklich verzoegert wird. (orig.)

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Original title (German)
Erfahrungen mit tritiumhaltigem Wasser als Tracer bei Laborversuchen an fluvioglazialen Kiesen

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Contributions to hydrological tracer methods and their application
Imprint Pagination
475 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 30-36.
Report number
GSF-R--290

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Imprint:Beitraege ueber hydrologische Tracermethoden und ihre Anwendungen.