Use of "red earth" - Low cost remedial option for arsenic removal

Journal De Physique. IV : JP

Volumn 107, Issue I, 2003, Pages 177-180

  Bhattacharyya, R ^a,b   Chatterjee, D ^a   Jacks, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISKS; IRON OXIDES; MINERALOGY; POTABLE WATER; QUARTZ; REMOVAL; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARSENIC GROUNDWATER; ARSENIC REMOVAL; CONTAMINATED WATER; RED EARTH;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0038377508     PISSN: 11554339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:20030271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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