Characterization of ambient air particulates and particulate mercury at Sha-Lu, central Taiwan

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-285

  Fang, Guor Cheng ^a   Basu, Niladri ^b   Nam, Dong Ha ^b   Yang, I Lin ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Collection medium; Deposition velocities; DMA 80; Dry deposition plate; Hg(p)

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249103260     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920903347511     Document Type: Article

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