ESEM-EDX characterisation of airborne particles from an industrialised area of northern Greece

Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 391-405

  Iordanidis, Andreas ^a   Buckman, Jim ^b   Triantafyllou, Athanasios G ^a   Asvesta, Argyro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airborne particles; Energy dispersive x ray; Environmental scanning electron microscopy; Greece; Ptolemais Kozaniarea

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FLY ASH; INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFATE; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; GREECE; INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; GREECE; INDUSTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; X-RAYS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN MACEDONIA;

EID: 50849136808     PISSN: 02694042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10653-007-9124-y     Document Type: Article

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