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The chemical composition of the thermal waters of the Kyndyg field has been studied. Powerful deposits of mineral salts are formed from mineralized, slightly alkaline chloride-calcium-sodium waters in pipes and on the surface of the earth, where water flows. In the composition of salt deposits, minerals of the carbonate class, i.e. aragonite, calcite, magnesite have been found. The radioactivity of samples of mineral salts was studied using a low-background gamma spectrometer with a germanium detector. The samples have shown an increased concentration of radium-226 (226Ra) to 7.6 ± 0.8 Bq/g. The healing effect of the therapeutic thermal waters of the Kyndyg deposit is due to the presence of radioactive radium-226 in the waters, the decay of which leads to the formation of a radioactive radon gas.
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The authors are grateful to K.A. Filippova, L.G. Udachina, G.F. Lonshchakova, M.N. Malyaryonok, N.I. Valizer for hydrochemical studies; E.D. Zenovich for the operative survey of radiographs; I.I. Musabirov for his work on a scanning electron microscope; Yu.S. Lyakhnitskiy and V.A. Muftakhov for contributing to the study of the radioactivity of the samples; and also to the employee of Novoafonskaya cave complex V.V. Marholiya for organizing the trip to the Kyndyg deposit and to the director of the Institute of Ecology of Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia R.S. Dbar for the information support.
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Potapov, S.S., Chervyatsova, O.Y., Parshina, N.V., Vasil’yev, S.K. (2020). Mineral Salts from the Thermal Waters of the Kyndyg Deposit (The Republic of Abkhazia, the Western Caucasus). In: Votyakov, S., Kiseleva, D., Grokhovsky, V., Shchapova, Y. (eds) Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods of Investigation. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00925-0_28
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