Trace metals in ambient air: Hourly size-segregated mass concentrations determined by synchrotron-XRF

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5754-5762

  Bukowiecki, Nicolas ^a   Hill, Matthias ^b   Gehrig, Robert ^b   Zwicky, Christoph N ^b   Lienemann, Peter ^b   Hegedüs, Ferenc ^a   Falkenberg, Gerald ^c   Weingartner, Ernest ^a   Baltensperger, Urs ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUORESCENCE; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAYS;

AMBIENT AIR; SIZE FRACTIONS; SIZE-SEGREGATED MASS CONCENTRATION; TRACE METALS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

BROMINE; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; CHROMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; SULFUR; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; TRACE METAL; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ACCURACY; AEROSOL; AIR ANALYSIS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVICE; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; SYNCHROTRON; TECHNIQUE; URBAN AREA; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

AEROSOLS; AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SWITZERLAND; SYNCHROTRONS; TIME FACTORS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 23244457765     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048089m     Document Type: Article

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