Radionuclides, heavy metals and fluorine incidence at Tapira phosphate rocks, Brazil, and their industrial (by) products

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 232-243

  Da Conceição, Fabiano Tomazini ^a   Bonotto, Daniel Marcos ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heavy metals and fluorine; Phosphate fertilizers; Phosphate rocks; Radionuclides

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE; HEAVY METALS; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS; PHOSPHATES;

HEAVY METALS AND FLUORINE; PHOSPHATE ROCKS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

FLUORINE; HEAVY METAL; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; POTASSIUM 40; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIUM 226; THALLIUM; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 238;

FERTILIZER; FLUORINE; HEAVY METAL; PHOSPHATE ROCK; RADIONUCLIDE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FLOTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; ROCK; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOIL POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FERTILIZERS; FLUORINE; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; MINING; PHOSPHATES; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

FLUORINE; HEAVY METALS; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 28844484371     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.05.014     Document Type: Article

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