Leaching of Radium within Shale Pores (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Leaching of Radium within Shale Pores

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Radium from within rock leaches from clay minerals that transfer highly radioactive radium-228 and an organic phase that serves as the source of radium-226.

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Joshua D. Landis.

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