Methylmercury in fish as a tool for understanding the amazon mercury contamination

Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 689-696

  Kehrig, Helena Do Amaral ^a   Malm, Olaf ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Aamazon; Fish; Goldmining; Mercury; Methylmercury; Reservoir; River basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000548369     PISSN: 02682605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0739(199910)13:10<689::aid-aoc912>3.3.co;2-y     Document Type: Article

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