Gamma-ray exposure build-up factors of some brick materials in the state of Punjab

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Issue		Radioprotection Volume 48, Number 4, Octobre-Décembre 2013


Page(s)		511 - 526
Section		Articles
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2013066
Published online		11 July 2013

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