Understanding the behaviour of 137Cs in the soil subsurface is important to avoiding health-associated risks of radionuclides in our environment. For this, we studied the tropical Malaysian soil to determine the factors affecting 137Cs sorption level; we evaluated sorption level using distributed coefficients and soil physico-chemical properties on 45 soil samples from 5 sites. We found the range 202 L kg−1 to 5919 L kg−1 for the distribution coefficients and the geometric mean of 1039 L kg−1 . Further, our results show that the main factor contributing 137Cs sorption in the tropical Malaysian soil is cation exchange capacity (CEC).
Houman, Z. M. M., & Yousif, A. A. (2019). The effect of 137Cs Sorption on a Tropical Soil. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 6(4), 295-302. doi: 10.21608/jbes.2019.371125
MLA
Zidan Mohamed M. Houman; Abubaker Ali Yousif. "The effect of 137Cs Sorption on a Tropical Soil", Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 6, 4, 2019, 295-302. doi: 10.21608/jbes.2019.371125
HARVARD
Houman, Z. M. M., Yousif, A. A. (2019). 'The effect of 137Cs Sorption on a Tropical Soil', Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 6(4), pp. 295-302. doi: 10.21608/jbes.2019.371125
VANCOUVER
Houman, Z. M. M., Yousif, A. A. The effect of 137Cs Sorption on a Tropical Soil. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 2019; 6(4): 295-302. doi: 10.21608/jbes.2019.371125
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