Portable x-ray fluorescence as a rapid technique for surveying elemental distributions in soil

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 516-526

  Radu, Tanja ^a   Gallagher, Simon ^b   Byrne, Brian ^c   Harris, Paul ^c   Coveney, Seamus ^c   McCarron, Stephen ^c   McCarthy, Tim ^c   Diamond, Dermot ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

heavy metals; soil pollution; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879616630     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010.2013.763829     Document Type: Article

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