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Volume 4, Issue 3
1 March 1993
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Research Article| March 01 1993

Triboluminescence : A Possible Indicator of Exposure to Radiation – The Chernobyl Accident Available to Purchase

Valeri E. Orel
Valeri E. Orel
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7085
Print ISSN: 0956-6163
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Environmental Management and Health (1993) 4 (3): 24–29.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09566169310043070

Proposes use of the triboluminescence of blood and condensed exhaled air products (which accompanies mechano‐chemi‐emission effects in biological objects) as a quantative test of levels of exposure, for example, to radiation. Describes trial of this technique on victims of the Chernobyl accident. Offers an explanatory model.

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Atomic energy industry, Environment, Health, Russia
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