Mercury speciation in contaminated soils from old mining activities in Mexico using a chemical selective extraction

Journal of the Mexican Chemical Society

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 263-271

  Gavilán García, Irma ^a,c   Santos Santos, Elvira ^a   Tovar Gálvez, Luis R ^c   Gavilán García, Arturo ^b   Suárez, Sara ^a   Olmos, Jesús ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Facultad de Quimica   (Mexico)

^b Instituto Nacional de Ecologia   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chemical selective extraction; Mercury speciation; Mining wastes; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953860543     PISSN: 1870249X     EISSN: 16659686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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