Toxic levels of some heavy metals in drinking groundwater in Dakahlyia Governorate, Egypt in the year 2010

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-117

  Mandour, R A ^a   Azab, Y A ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Atomic; Chemical; Heavy; Heavy metal poisoning; Metals; Spectrophotometry; Water pollution; Water supply

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; HEAVY METAL; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICOLOGY; EGYPT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

DRINKING WATER; EGYPT; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; METALS, HEAVY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79953719092     PISSN: 20086520     EISSN: 20086814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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