Monitoring of selenium concentrations in major springs of Yarmouk Basin, North Jordan

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 704-714

  Al Taani, Ahmed A ^a   Batayneh, Awni ^b   El Radaideh, Nazem ^a   Al Momani, Idrees ^a   Rawabdeh, Abdullah ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

North Jordan; Selenium; Spring; Yarmouk Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865251729     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2012.18.05.3181     Document Type: Review

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