Site characterization of polluted soils and comparison of screening techniques for heavy metals by mobile ICP-MS, GFAAS/ICP-AES (fixed laboratory) and EDXRF (fixed laboratory)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 177, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 195-214

  Duane, M J ^a,b   Facchetti, S ^a   Pigozzi, G ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

aqua regia digestion; inductively coupled plasma mass spectromery (ICP MS); mine tailings dumps; mobile geochemical laboratory; nitric acid digestion; soil sampling

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLLUTION CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL POLLUTION;

CONTAMINATION SOIL; HEAVY METAL; ICP-MS; LABORATORY; MINING SITE; VEGETATION; XRF;

GERMANY;

EID: 0029668089     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04895-2     Document Type: Article

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