Design and evaluation of a filter-based chairside amalgam separation system

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 396, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-33

  Stone, Mark E ^a   Cohen, Mark E ^a   Berry, Denise L ^a   Ragain Jr , James C ^a  

^a Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Amalgam; Amalgam separators; Dental wastewater; Mercury

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DENTAL AMALGAMS; INSTALLATION; MERCURY (METAL); PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMALGAM SEPARATORS; CHAIRSIDE AMALGAM SEPARATION SYSTEMS; DENTAL WASTEWATER; REUSABLE FILTERS;

FILTRATION;

AMALGAM; MERCURY;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FILTRATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER;

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; FILTRATION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 43049119247     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.037     Document Type: Article

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