Cadmium and uranium in German and Brazilian phosphorous fertilizers

The New Uranium Mining Boom: Challenge and Lessons Learned

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 167-176

  Smidt, Geerd A ^a   Landes, Franziska C ^a   De Carvalho, Leandro Machado ^a   Koschinsky, Andrea ^b   Schnug, Ewald ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; PHOSPHORUS;

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; CADMIUMS (CD); MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; P FERTILIZERS; SOUTHERN BRAZIL;

URANIUM;

EID: 84855318048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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