Characterizing the outlines of degraded fine-particles by fractal dimension

Scanning Microscopy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-83

  Hunt, Andrew ^a   Johnson, David L ^b  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Dissolution; Etching; Fine particles; Fractal; Lead; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; LEAD; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0030316695     PISSN: 08917035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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