This paper reports the observed changes for equilibrium factors between 226Ra and 222Rn with sealing time of the samples. The samples include soil
raw coal
mineral water
cement
rock
etc. Especially the conceptions of “pre-equilibrium time” and “pre-equilibrium factor” have been put forward and methods of measuring and processing data have been given which can be used for rapidly reporting activity of 226Ra in samples with unknown equilibrium factor. It is definitely concluded that
using methods given in the paper
a test report will be completed in 3—7 days
instead of one month
after receiving the sample whose activity is not lower than LLD of the spectrometer.