The effect of 137Cs Sorption on a Tropical Soil | ||
| Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences | ||
| Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 295-302 PDF (446.46 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jbes.2019.371125 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zidan Mohamed M. Houman* ; Abubaker Ali Yousif | ||
| Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sebha, P. O. Box 19632, Sebha, Libya | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Understanding the behaviour of 137Cs in the soil subsurface is important to avoiding health-associated risks of radionuclides in our environment. For this, we studied the tropical Malaysian soil to determine the factors affecting 137Cs sorption level; we evaluated sorption level using distributed coefficients and soil physico-chemical properties on 45 soil samples from 5 sites. We found the range 202 L kg−1 to 5919 L kg−1 for the distribution coefficients and the geometric mean of 1039 L kg−1 . Further, our results show that the main factor contributing 137Cs sorption in the tropical Malaysian soil is cation exchange capacity (CEC). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| : Sorption; 137Cs; physico-chemical soil properties; soil solution distribution coefficient; Malaysian soil | ||
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