Removal, partitioning, and fate of silver and other metals in wastewater treatment plants and effluent-receiving streams

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 630-641

  Shafer, Martin M ^a   Overdier, Joel T ^a   Armstong, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloids; Metals; Municipal treatment plants; Silver; Streams

Indexed keywords

METAL; SILVER;

HEAVY METAL; PARTITIONING; SILVER; SURFACE WATER QUALITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 0031978267     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<0630:RPAFOS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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