Case study: Heavy metals and fluoride contents in the materials of Syrian phosphate industry and in the vicinity of phosphogypsum piles

Environmental Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-152

  Al Attar, L ^a   Al Oudat, M ^a   Shamali, K ^a   Abdul Ghany, B ^a   Kanakri, S ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Fluoride; Heavy metals; Phosphate industry; Syrian phosphogypsum

Indexed keywords

ALUMINOUS REFRACTORIES; FERTILIZERS; FLUORIDE MINERALS; GYPSUM; HEAVY METALS; INDUSTRY; LEAD; MERCURY (METAL); SOILS;

AIR PARTICULATE; ANODE STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY; CD DETERMINATION; CU DETERMINATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORIDE; FLUORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORIDE CONTENT; INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; LAKE WATERS; PHOSPHOGYPSUM; PHOSPHOGYPSUM PILE; PREVAILING WINDS; SAMPLING CAMPAIGNS; SOIL SAMPLE; SOIL TEXTURES;

PILES;

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; FERTILIZER; FLUORIDE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCUROUS CHLORIDE; NICKEL; PHOSPHATE; SELENIUM; WATER; ZINC;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOACCUMULATION; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FLUORIDE; HEAVY METAL; PHOSPHATE; PHYTOTOXICITY; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER POLLUTION;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION; CASE STUDY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; INDUSTRY; ION SELECTIVE ELECTRODE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PH; PLANT; POTENTIOMETRY; SOIL; SOIL EROSION; SOIL TEXTURE; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

PHOSPHOGYPSUM;

EID: 84859716405     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2011.552531     Document Type: Article

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