Arsenic release and exposure from lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate

Environmental Impacts of Treated Wood

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 215-235

  Patch, Steven C ^a   Maas, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

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