Seasonal variation of total dissolved arsenic and arsenic speciation in a polluted surface waterway

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-85

  Gault, Andrew G ^a   Polya, David A ^a   Lythgoe, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accrington; Adsorption; Arsenic; Mixing; Seasonal; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEASON; SOLUBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARSENIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; ENGLAND; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEASONS; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037360703     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021253016154     Document Type: Article

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