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Radon Daughters

Known as: Daughters, Radon, Radon Daughters [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Short-lived radioactive decay products of radon that include 216-Po, 214-Pb, 214-Bi, and 214-Po. They have an effective half-life of about 30 minutes… Expand
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Thoron Daughters

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2015
2015
New properties of the V-line Radon transform and their imaging applications
This paper reports on new aspects of the so-called V-line Radon transforms (RTs) complementing those reported in an earlier work… Expand
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2011
2011
Radon hydrides: structure and bonding.
Quantum chemical calculations, using gradient-correct density functional at the BP86 level in conjunction with TZ2P basis sets… Expand
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2010
2010
Dose conversion factors for radon: recent developments.
Epidemiological studies of the occupational exposure of miners and domestic exposures of the public have provided strong and… Expand
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Attenuation of exposure-response curves in occupational cohort studies at high exposure levels.
Numerous occupational cohort mortality studies have observed exposure-response curves to have an increasing slope at low exposure… Expand
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2002
2002
Modelling lung tumour risk in radon-exposed uranium miners using generalizations of the two-mutation model of Moolgavkar, Venzon and Knudson
Purposes : To model radon-induced lung cancer in uranium miners using a quasi-biological model of carcinogenesis. Materials and… Expand
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1989
Highly Cited
1989
Lung cancer mortality among nonsmoking uranium miners exposed to radon daughters.
Radon daughters, both in the workplace and in the household, are a continuing cause for concern because of the well-documented… Expand
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1988
Highly Cited
1988
Retrospective determination of radon in houses
In the 1970s it was statistically proved that exposure to radon daughter products caused lung cancer in miners1. High… Expand
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1983
1983
Radiation exposure of the respiratory tract and associated carcinogenic risk due to inhaled radon daughters.
The atmospheric content of radon and its decay products contributes significantly to the radiation exposure of man even in the… Expand
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1983
1983
Transport of radon in flowing boreholes at Stripa, Sweden
Granitic rock in an underground experimental waste storage site at Stripa, Sweden, is unusually high in natural radioelements… Expand
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1982
1982
Lung carcinogenesis during in vivo cigarette smoking and radon daughter exposure in rats.
The carcinogenic activity of tobacco smoke is clearly demonstrated by human epidemiologic data. Whereas in experimental animals… Expand
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