Levels of metals in commercially available ethiopian black teas and their infusions

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 339-349

  Gebretsadik, Daniel Woldegebriel ^a   Chandravanshi, Bhagwan Singh ^b  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Black tea; Flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer (FAAS); Heavy metals; Tea (Camellia sinensis); Tea infusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960152730     PISSN: 10113924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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