Using 226Ra/228Ra disequilibrium to determine the residence half-lives of radium in vegetation compartments

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作者
Baeza, A [1 ]
Barandica, J [1 ]
Paniagua, JM [1 ]
Rufo, M [1 ]
Sterling, A [1 ]
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[1] Fac Vet, Dept Fis, Caceres 10071, Spain
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10.1016/S0265-931X(98)00047-2
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
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The concentrations of Ra-226 and Ra-228 were studied in different vegetation compartments and in available and non-available soil fractions in a Mediterranean scrubland ecosystem. A high percentage of the plant samples showed an apparent discrimination in favour of Ra-226 Ra-228. A linear compartmental model was applied to the soil-plant system. It allowed us over to explain why these discrimination coefficients differed from unity, to obtain the residence half-lives of radium in the different compartments, to estimate the age of the plants, and to simulate the temporal evolution of the radioactive concentrations in each compartment. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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