Particulate airborne fluoride from an aluminium production plant in Arak, Iran

Fluoride

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 228-232

  Dobaradaran, Sina ^a,b   Fazelinia, Fatemeh ^b   Mahvi, Amir Hossein ^b   Hosseini, Sara Saadat ^b  

^a BUSHEHR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Airborne fluoride; Aluminium smelter; Arak, Iran; Particulate fluoride

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE;

AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALUMINUM FACTORY; ARTICLE; ION CONDUCTANCE; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; IRAN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 69849115992     PISSN: 00154725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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