Evaluation of zinc, cadmium and lead isotope fractionation during smelting and refining

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2357-2368

  Shiel, Alyssa E ^a   Weis, Dominique ^a   Orians, Kristin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Anthropogenic; Emissions; Heavy metals; Industrial processes; MC ICP MS; Metallurgical processing; Tracer

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESSS; MC-ICP-MS; METALLURGICAL PROCESSING;

AIR QUALITY; CALCINATION; EFFLUENTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; ISOTOPES; LEAD; LEAD REFINING; LEAD SMELTING; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METAL RECOVERY; METAL REFINING; METALLURGY; METALS; REFINING; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; ZINC; ZINC REFINING; ZINC SMELTING; ZINC SULFIDE;

CADMIUM;

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CADMIUM; EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEAD ISOTOPE; METALLURGY; SMELTING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRACER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FRACTIONATION; FUME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALLURGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SMELTER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CADMIUM; CANADA; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METALLURGY; METALS, HEAVY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; ZINC;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 77950037968     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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