Chromium Contamination and Its Risk Management in Complex Environmental Settings

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 120, Issue , 2013, Pages 129-172

  Choppala, Girish ^a   Bolan, Nanthi ^a   Park, Jin Hee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Chromium; Contamination; Distribution; Reduction; Risk management; Sorption; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876975497     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407686-0.00002-6     Document Type: Chapter

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