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Title: Effects of neutron source type on soil moisture measurement

Author: Goldberg, Irving; MacGillivray, Norman A.; Ziemer, Robert R.

Date: 1967

Source: In: Transactions, American Nuclear Society, Thirteeenth Annual Meeting, 11-15 June 1967, San Diego, California; including 14-page paper presented at meeting. p. 20-21.

Description: A number of radioisotopes have recently become commercially available as alternatives to radium-225 in moisture gauging devices using alpha-neutron sources for determining soil moisture, for well logging, and for other industrial applications in which hydrogenous materials are measured.

Keywords: PSW4351, radioisotopes, moisture gauging devices, soil moisture, neotron sources

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Goldberg, Irving; MacGillivray, Norman A.; Ziemer, Robert R.  1967.  Effects of neutron source type on soil moisture measurement.   In: Transactions, American Nuclear Society, Thirteeenth Annual Meeting, 11-15 June 1967, San Diego, California; including 14-page paper presented at meeting. p. 20-21..