Soil Silver Mobility in Areas Subjected to Cloud Seeding with AgI

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1059-1063

  Tsiouris, S E ^a   Aravanopoulos, F A ^b   Papadoyannis, I N ^b   Sofoniou, M K ^b   Samanidou, V F ^b   Zachariadis, G A ^b   Constantinidou, H I A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud seeding; Silver in plants; Silver mobility; Silver nitrate; Soil silver iodide

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CLOUD SEEDING; ELEMENT MOBILITY; SILVER; SOIL POLLUTION;

GREECE;

EID: 0142124209     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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