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To study the role of citric and oxalic acids on 226Ra transfer factor (TF) from a soil with 10,000 Bq kg−1 of 226Ra activity to corn plant, a greenhouse experiment was conducted. Results revealed that the highest TF in whole plant was 0.063 and in citric acid at 100 mM concentration. It was 1.4 times of control (0.043). Maximum value of TF in shoot and root was 0.015 and 0.049 in citric acid at 10 and 100 mM concentrations, respectively. Organic acids did not extract 226Ra from this soil, while they reduced the pH of soil extracts compared to control.
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The authors would like to thank to Bahram Salimi in LSC laboratory at Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute of Iran for his help and cooperation for samples preparation and analysis. The work forms part of a thesis submitted to the University of Tarbiat Modares for the degree of Ph.D.
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Nezami, S., Malakouti, M.J., Bahrami Samani, A. et al. The role of organic acids on 226Ra transfer factor in corn (Zea mays L.). J Radioanal Nucl Chem 313, 13–18 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5265-3
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