Mercury content in smoke and tobacco from selected cigarette brands

Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Kowalski, Radosław ^a   Wierciński, Janusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cigarette; Mercury; Non flame atomic spectrometry absorption; Smoke; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860780487     PISSN: 18986196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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