Extreme selenium and tellurium contamination in soils - An eighty year-old industrial legacy surrounding a Ni refinery in the Swansea Valley

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 412-413, Issue , 2011, Pages 162-169

  Perkins, William T ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contamination; Selenium; Soil; Tellurium

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY DATA; ELEVATED LEVEL; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; SOIL CONTAMINATION; SWANSEA;

AIR QUALITY; CONTAMINATION; REFINING; SELENIUM; SOILS; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

NICKEL; SELENIUM; TELLURIUM;

INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REFINING INDUSTRY; SELENIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; TELLURIUM;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL INDUSTRY; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALLURGY; NICKEL; SELENIUM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TELLURIUM; WALES;

SWANSEA [WALES]; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84855855734     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.056     Document Type: Article

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