“…The thickness of the films was adjusted to absorb the energy of alpha particles from radon, thoron and their progenies except for 212 Po (8.78 MeV). Since the Raduet and thoron progeny deposition detector are inexpensive and easy to use, they are often used in a large-scale survey (e.g., Chen et al, 2012;Janik et al, 2013;Kudo et al, 2015;McLaughlin et al, 2011;Ramola et al, 2010Ramola et al, , 2012.…”