Polonium-210 in honey samples from southern Poland
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Grzegorz Romańczyk
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Alicja Boryło
Abstract
Polonium (210Po) concentrations in different honey samples from Lower Silesian Voivodeship and Lesser Poland Voivodeship (southern Poland) were determined. Significantly higher 210Po concentrations were observed near mining heaps and former excavations versus background areas. Differences in 210Po concentrations were also observed for honeydew versus nectar honey and between the two voivodeships.
Funding source: Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Award Identifier / Grant number: DS/530-8635-D745-18
Funding statement: The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the financial support of this work under (Funder Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004569, Grant DS/530-8635-D745-18). The authors would also like to thank all those who contributed to the acquisition of research material.
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- Thermodynamic description of U(VI) solubility and hydrolysis in dilute to concentrated NaCl solutions at T = 25, 55 and 80 °C
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- Molybdenum and lanthanum as alternate burn-up monitors – development of chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods for determination of atom percent fission
- Removal of Cs-137 and Sr-90 from reactor actual liquid waste samples using a new synthesized bionanocomposite-based carboxymethylcellulose
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