X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in multielemental analysis of hair and teeth

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 639-646

  Baranowska, I ^a   Barchanski L ^a   Bak M ^a   Smolec, B ^b   Mzyk, Z ^c  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy ^*  (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NON FERROUS METALS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Hair; Multielemental analysis; Teeth; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144281989     PISSN: 12301485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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