Environmental chemistry of silver in soils. Current and historic perspective

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 114, Issue , 2012, Pages 59-90

  VandeVoort, Allison Rick ^a   Arai, Yuji ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clays and clay minerals; Metal; Nanosilver; Silver; Silver nanoparticles; Soft metal sorption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856018536     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394275-3.00005-5     Document Type: Chapter

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