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2. Radon - Wikipedia

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   Radon mixed with hydrogen entered the evacuated system through siphon A; mercury is shown in black. Radon was discovered in 1899 by Ernest Rutherford and Robert B. Owens at McGill University in Montreal. [48] It was the fifth radioactive element to be discovered, after uranium, thorium, radium, and polonium.

3. Radon mitigation - Wikipedia

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   A typical radon test kit Fluctuation of ambient air radon concentration over one week, measured in a laboratory. The first step in mitigation is testing. No level of radiation is considered completely safe, but as it cannot be eliminated, governments around the world have set various action levels to provide guidance on when radon concentrations should be reduced.

4. Consumer Reports - Wikipedia

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   Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative ...

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6. History of radiation protection - Wikipedia

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   Radon experiments at the Radium Institute in Paris, 1924. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive noble gas discovered in 1900 by Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848-1916) and is considered carcinogenic. Radon is increasingly found in areas with high levels of uranium and thorium in the soil. These are mainly areas with high granitic rock deposits.

7. Radium and radon in the environment - Wikipedia

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   Residues from the oil and gas industry often contain radium and its daughters. The sulfate scale from an oil well can be very radium rich. The water inside an oil field is often very rich in strontium, barium and radium, while seawater is very rich in sulfate: so if water from an oil well is discharged into the sea or mixed with seawater, the radium is likely to be brought out of solution by ...