Atmospheric mercury concentrations in the basin of the Amazon, Brazil

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 183-187

  Hachiya, Noriyuki ^a   Takizawa, Yukio ^b   Hisamatsu, Shun'ichi ^a   Abe, Touru ^a   Abe, Yuko ^a   Motohashi, Yutaka ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A portable air sampler; Air contamination; Amazon; Global environment; Mercury

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; HEALTH HAZARD; HYPOTHESIS; MINING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0031887758     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931699     Document Type: Article

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