New Directions: Atmospheric mercury, easy to spot and hard to pin down: impasse?

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8549-8551

  Pirrone, Nicola ^a   Hedgecock, Ian M ^a   Sprovieri, Francesca ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; MERCURY;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LETTER; MERCURIALISM; MINING; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPILLAGE;

EID: 54349092988     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.004     Document Type: Letter

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