Lead pollution in East Trinidad resulting from lead recycling and smelting activities

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 123-128

  Mohammed, Terry I ^a   Chang Yen, Ivan ^a   Bekele, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Environmental contamination; Lead; Pollution; Soil

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LEAD POLLUTION; WASTE RECYCLING;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, TRINIDAD;

EID: 0030460807     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01771288     Document Type: Article

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