Seasonal variations of lead, arsenic, cadmium and aluminium contamination of groundwater in Dhemaji district, Assam, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 345-351

  Buragohain, Mridul ^a   Bhuyan, Bhabajit ^c   Sarma, Hari Prasad ^b  

^a Lakhimpur Girls' College   (India)

^b GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aluminium; Arsenic; Cadmium; Lead; Seasonal variations

Indexed keywords

ALUMINIUM; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETERS; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; DRY AND WET; DRY SEASONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; METAL CONTAMINATION; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; PERKIN ELMER; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE; WATER SAMPLES; WET SEASON;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAD; METALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CADMIUM;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; GROUND WATER; LEAD; RAIN;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEAD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKEWNESS; WATER QUALITY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; INDIA; PREDICTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INDIA; LEAD; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ASSAM; DHEMAJI; INDIA;

EID: 77957682890     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1237-6     Document Type: Article

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