Concentrations of mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum in irrigation water wells and wastewaters used for agriculture in mashhad, northeastern Iran

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-86

  Mousavi, S R ^a   Balali Mood, M ^a   Riahi Zanjani, B ^a   Yousefzadeh, H ^b   Sadeghi, Mahmood ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Atomic; Chemical; Food contamination; Heavy; Iran; Metals; Sewage; Spectrophotometry; Waste water; Water pollution; Water wells

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); IRRIGATION WATER; WASTE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IRAN; METALS, HEAVY; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84876080720     PISSN: 20086520     EISSN: 20086814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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