Assessment of natural radioactivity levels and the associated radiological hazards in some building materials from Mayo-Kebbi region, Chad

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Issue		Radioprotection Volume 53, Number 4, October-December 2018


Page(s)		265 - 278
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2018030
Published online		11 October 2018

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