RADON


Meaning of RADON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

Would firms move into areas with high radon concentrations?

Equally high domestic lifetime radon exposures are rarely found.

■ NOUN

gas

One area of recent debate concerns radon gas and its links to lung cancer.

In recent years, concern has been raised over exposure to ionizing radiation from radon gas .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As for radon , Rudy said looking for radon in drinking water would be extremely expensive and might not help public health.

But who do we blame for radon ?

Environmentalists keep quiet because concern over radon in houses would divert attention from the campaign against nuclear power.

If the soil is permeable enough radon can diffuse out before it decays.

The applicability of such data derived from uranium miners to the general population is central to the radon issue.

They are the noble gases: neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon .

This is the so-called Action Level beyond which the occupier is advised to reduce the radon level.

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