Chemical and structural characterization of airborne particulate matter in an industrial and an Urban area in Greece

Fresenius Environmental Bulletin

Volumn 18, Issue 11 A, 2009, Pages 2210-2218

  Ochsenkühn Petropoulou, Maria ^a   Lyberopoulou, Theopisti ^a   Argyropoulou, Rachel ^a   Tsopelas, Fotios ^a   Ochsenkühn, Klaus Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airborne particulate matter; Ion chromatography; PM 10 PM2.5 10; SEM EDX; XRD

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; URBAN AREA; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 73649137477     PISSN: 10184619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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