Evaluation of two commercial field test kits used for screening of groundwater for arsenic in Northern India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 401, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 162-167

  Sankararamakrishnan, Nalini ^a   Chauhan, Divya ^a   Nickson, R T ^b   Tripathi, R M ^c   Iyengar, L ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c UPJAL Nigam   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Evaluation; Field test kit; India; Uttar Pradesh; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; FIELD TEST KIT;

WATER ANALYSIS;

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER;

ARSENIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTAMINATED LAND; DETECTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; CHEM IN CORP FIELD TEST KIT; COLORIMETRY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; WAGTECH DIGITAL ARSENATOR TEST KIT;

ARSENIC; COLORIMETRY; DITIOCARB; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; BALLIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KANPUR; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

BALLIA;

EID: 44749087243     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.03.042     Document Type: Article

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