"Heavy metals": Reminding a long-standing and sometimes forgotten controversy

Geoderma

Volumn 155, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 128-129

  Madrid, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 73449084395     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.11.031     Document Type: Article

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