Publication details
Radon and its Progeny in the Environment
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In 1900, Dorn discovered the emanation in the uranium series that eventually became the well-known gas 222Rn. But the effects of prolonged exposure had been suspected and noted 300 years earlier among underground miners who developed lung cancer. In 1951, researchers at the university of Rochester N.Y. pointed out that the lung cancer health hazard was from the alpha radiation dose delivered by the radon decay products that deposited in the respiratory tract. The aim of our contribution is measuring of radon concentration in some places at Moravia by means of the Level Living Monitor LLM 500, outstanding equipment not only from the scientificial but also from didactical point of view. : |