Assessment of alpha activity of building materials commonly used in West Bengal, India |
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Authors: | Ghosh Dipak Deb Argha Bera Sukumar Sengupta Rosalima Patra Kanchan Kumar |
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Institution: | School of Studies in Environmental Radiation and Archaeological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India; Nuclear and Particle Physics Research Centre, Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700 032, India. |
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Abstract: | This paper, reports for the first time, an extensive study of alpha activity of all widely used building materials (plaster of Paris, stone chips, marble, white cement, mosaic stone, limestone, sand, granite, cement brick, asbestos, red brick, cement tile, ceramic tile and ceramics) in West Bengal, India. The alpha activities have been measured using Solid State Nuclear Track Detector (SSNTD), a very sensitive detector for alpha particles. The samples were collected from local markets of Kolkata. The measured average alpha activities ranged from 22.7+/-2.5 to 590.6+/-16.8Bqkg(-1). The alpha activity of ceramic tiles was highest and provides additional data to estimate the effect of environmental radiation exposure on human health. |
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