Association between the organic matter content and magnetic properties in street dust, Liverpool, UK

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 241, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 205-214

  Xie, Shanju ^a   Dearing, John A ^a   Bloemendal, Jan ^a   Boyle, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(ARM) SIRM; (FD) percentage; Correlation; Magnetic properties; Organic matter content; Street dust

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; DUST; MAGNETISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032875775     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00346-0     Document Type: Article

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