Role of natural red earth in arsenic removal in drinking water - comparison with synthetic gibbsite and goethite

Trace Metals and other Contaminants in the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages 587-601

  Vithanage, M ^a   Chandrajith, R ^b   Weerasooriya, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

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EID: 44349138108     PISSN: 18751121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1875-1121(06)09022-5     Document Type: Review

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