Evaluation of two portable lead-monitoring methods at mining sites

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-38

  Drake, Pamela L ^a   Lawryk, Nicholas J ^a   Ashley, Kevin ^a   Sussell, Aaron L ^a   Hazelwood, Kyle J ^a   Song, Ruiguang ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anodic stripping voltammetry; Lead; Portable analysis; Ultrasonic extraction; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; FLUORESCENCE; MINING; SILICATES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MINING SITES;

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS;

LEAD;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LEAD; MINE; MINERAL PROCESSING; ULTRASONICS; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANODIC STRIPPING POTENTIOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ECHOGRAPHY; FLAME ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENT; MEMBRANE FILTER; MINING; SAMPLING; SCREENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0042330174     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3894(03)00200-0     Document Type: Article

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