Dissolved inorganic antimony, selenium and tin species in water samples from various sampling sites of river Vardar in Macedonia and Greece

Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-188

  Serafimovska, Jožica Majda ^a   Arpadjan, Sonja ^b   Stafilov, Trajče ^a   Popov, Stanko Ilik ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Antimony; Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry; Selenium; Speciation; Tin; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855334306     PISSN: 18575552     EISSN: 18575625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20450/mjcce.2011.33     Document Type: Article

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