Lead in prehistoric, historic and contemporary Japanese: Stable isotopic study by ICP mass spectrometry

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 403-413

  Yoshinaga, Jun ^a   Yoneda, Minoru ^a   Morita, Masatoshi ^a   Suzuki, Tsuguyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

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EID: 0031806716     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(98)00004-3     Document Type: Article

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