Assessment of natural radioactivity levels in stony sand from Black Stone Beach of Kuantan, the Peninsular Malaysia

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Numéro		Radioprotection Volume 54, Numéro 3, July-September 2019


Page(s)		211 - 218
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2019024
Publié en ligne		19 juillet 2019

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