Study of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material Present in Deep Soil of the Malwa Region of Punjab State of India Using Low Level Background Gamma-Ray Spectrometry |
Srivastava, Alok
(Department of Chemistry, Panjab University)
Chahar, Vikash (Department of Chemistry, Panjab University) Chauhan, Neeraj (Department of Chemistry, Panjab University) Krupp, Dominik (Department of Chemical Process Technology, Hochschule-Mannheim) Scherer, Ulrich W. (Department of Chemical Process Technology, Hochschule-Mannheim) |
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