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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages 10-14Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.03.003
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- European Community - Research Infrastructure Action
- LAPBIAT [RITA-CT-2006-025969]
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Size-segregated aerosol samples were collected with a high-volume 6-stage cascade impactor at Sodankyla, Finland, 100 km north of the Arctic Circle. The Pb-210 content of the samples were determined with radiochemical separation of in-grown Po-210 followed by alpha spectrometry. Most of the Pb-210 activity was incorporated in accumulation mode aerosol particles. The activity median aerodynamic diameter (AMAD) ranged from 0.53 mu m to 0.98 mu m 38-61 per cent of Pb-210 activity was found to be associated with aerosol particles smaller than 0.69 mu m. A slight downward tendency of Pb-210 activity median aerodynamic diameter was observed as a function of increasing Pb-210 activity concentration. This is related to the continental origin of airborne Pb-210 on one hand, and various aerosol particle growth processes on the other hand. Also a clear tendency towards a higher Be-7/Pb-210 activity ratio as a function of increasing aerosol particle diameter was observed. This, in turn, reflects the different origin of (210)pb, exhalation of Rn-222 from the soil into the air, and Be-7, formation by cosmic radiation in the upper troposphere and the stratosphere. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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