Using attic dust and soil for the separation of anthropogenic and geogenic elemental distributions in an old metallurgic area (Celje, Slovenia)

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 59-67

  Sajn, Robert ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Attic dust; Celje; Metals; Pollution; Slovenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY METALLURGY; BINARY ALLOYS; CADMIUM METALLURGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; CHROMIUM METALLURGY; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT METALLURGY; COPPER METALLURGY; DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON ALLOYS; LEAD ALLOYS; LEAD METALLURGY; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE ALLOYS; MANGANESE METALLURGY; METALS; MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS; MOLYBDENUM METALLURGY; NICKEL METALLURGY; NIOBIUM ALLOYS; NIOBIUM METALLURGY; POLLUTION; SILVER METALLURGY; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TITANIUM ALLOYS; TITANIUM METALLURGY; TITANIUM OXIDES; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC METALLURGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC ELEMENTS; ATTIC DUST; CELJE; ELEMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SLOVENIA; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SULPHURIC ACID PRODUCTION;

IRON METALLURGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONTAMINATED LAND; DUST; SOIL POLLUTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14744290664     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-050     Document Type: Article

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