A Novel Way of Sampling Particles Containing Platinum Group Elements from Automobile Catalysts

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 539-550

  Paraskevas, Michael S ^a   Papoutsi, Katerina ^a   Ochsenkühn Petropoulou, Maria ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosol particles; Automobile catalyst; Palladium; Platinum; Rhodium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859850703     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2011.649459     Document Type: Article

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