Rapid monitoring of mercury in air from an organic chemical factory in China using a portable mercury analyzer

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Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 1630-1640

  Yasutake, Akira ^a   Cheng, Jin Ping ^b   Kiyono, Masako ^c   Uraguchi, Shimpei ^d   Liu, Xiaojie ^e   Miura, Kyoko ^f   Yasuda, Yoshiaki ^a   Mashyanov, Nikolay ^g  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^f WAKO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Air; Guizhou; Mercury pollution; Soils; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACETALDEHYDE; MERCURY;

AIR MONITORING; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); NONHUMAN; ORGANIC CHEMICAL FACTORY; PLANT DAMAGE; POLLUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHINA; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MERCURY;

EID: 80053200251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2011/493207     Document Type: Article

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