Identification of air pollution elements in lichens used as bioindicators, by the XRF and AAS methods

Romanian Reports of Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 240-249

  State, Gabriel ^a   Popescu, Ion V ^b,c,d   Gheboianu, Anca ^c   Radulescu, Cristiana ^c   Dulama, Ioana ^c   Bancuta, Iulian ^c   Stirbescu, Raluca ^e  

^a National College Ien chi V c rescu Târgovi te   (Romania)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

^d HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

AAS; Air pollution; EDXRF; Lichen

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952463136     PISSN: 1221146X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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