Groundwater arsenic exposure in india

Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects V

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-24

  Chakraborti, Dipankar ^a   Sengupta, Mrinal Kumar ^a   Rahman, Mohammad Mahmudur ^a   Chowdhury, Uttam Kumar ^a   Lodh, Dilip ^a   Ahamed, Sad ^a   Hossain, Md Amir ^a   Basu, Gautam Kumar ^a   Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra ^a   Saha, Kshitish Chandra ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination in Bihar; Arsenic in Ganga plain; Industrial arsenic contamination; Source of arsenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249118219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451441-7/50002-6     Document Type: Article

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