Plant availability of uranium in contaminated soil from Crucea Mine (Romania)

Environmental Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-135

  Petrescu, L ^a   Bilal, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; SOIL POLLUTION; URANIUM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

EID: 4644328691     PISSN: 10759565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/eg100302001     Document Type: Article

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