Effect of arsenic-contaminated irrigation water on agricultural land soil and plants in West Bengal, India

Chemosphere

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 799-810

  Roychowdhury, Tarit ^a   Tokunaga, Hiroshi ^a   Uchino, Tadashi ^a   Ando, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural irrigation; Arsenic; Groundwater; ICP MS; Microwave digestion; Soil and plant

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LANDS; IRRIGATION WATER; TUBEWELLS; WEST BENGAL, INDIA;

IRRIGATION;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARSENIC; IRRIGATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; INDIA; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; IRRIGATION; PLANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL; WORLD;

EID: 11144348134     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.08.098     Document Type: Article

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