Mercury persistence in indoor environments in the Amazon Region, Brazil

Environmental Research

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-238

  Bastos, Wanderley Rodrigues ^a   De Freitas Fonseca, Márlon ^b   Pinto, Fernando Neves ^b   De Freitas Rebelo, Mauro ^b   Silva Dos Santos, Sérgio ^a   Glória Da Silveira, Ene ^a   Torres, João Paulo MacHado ^b   Malm, Olaf ^b   Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE RONDÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gold trade shops; Mercury vapor; Occupational exposure; Tillandsia usneoides

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MERCURY; PLASTIC;

INDOOR AIR;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BRAZIL; BROMELIACEAE; CAGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TILLANDSIA; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD ALLOYS; MERCURY; MERCURY POISONING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TILLANDSIA;

BROMELIACEAE; BRYOPHYTA; TILLANDSIA; TILLANDSIA USNEOIDES;

EID: 4344606027     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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