The Cu, Mn and Zn concentration of sheep wool: Influence of washing procedures, age and colour of matrix

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4140-4148

  Hawkins, D P ^a,b   Ragnarsdottir K V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Hair analysis; Trace metals; Washing procedures; Wool analysis; Wool colour

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION OF; CONTAMINANT REMOVALS; HAIR ANALYSIS; MATRIXES; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; NOVEL METHODS; ROUTINE ANALYSIS; SHEEP WOOLS; TRACE METALS; WASHING PROCEDURES;

COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); IMPURITIES; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL ANALYSIS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WASHING; WOOL; YARN; ZINC;

METAL REFINING;

COPPER; MANGANESE; MELANIN; ZINC;

COLOR; HAIR; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SHEEP; TRACE METAL; WOOL;

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HAIR ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SHEEP; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNIQUE; TEXTILE WASHING; ULTRASOUND; WOOL;

ANIMALS; COLOR; COPPER; MANGANESE; SHEEP; WOOL; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67349178113     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.02.020     Document Type: Article

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