Arsenic in ground water in six districts of West Bengal, India: The biggest arsenic calamity in the world: Part I. Arsenic species in drinking water and urine of the affected people

Analyst

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 643-650

  Chatterjee, Amit ^a   Das, Dipankar ^a   Mandai, Badal K ^a   Chowdhury, Tarit Roy ^a   Samanta, Gautam ^a   Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Arsenic species; Flow injection hydride generation atomic absorbtion spectrometry; Ground water; Urine

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049068877     PISSN: 00032654     EISSN: 13645528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/AN9952000643     Document Type: Article

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