Toxic Trace Elements

Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment: A Risk Based Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-114

  Pan, Jilang ^a   Chon, Ho Sik ^a   Cave, Mark R ^b   Oates, Christopher J ^c   Plant, Jane A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c Applied Geochemistry Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

As cycle, interconversions in nature; Cd pathways, in environment; Effects on human receptors, exposure pathways; Environmental pathways; Hazardous properties of TTEs; Lead poisoning, irreversible neurological damage; Toxic trace elements (TTEs); TTEs adsorption, and health effects; TTEs in rock types; TTEs, and source pathway receptor model

Indexed keywords

CD PATHWAYS, IN ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PATHWAYS; EXPOSURE PATHWAYS; HAZARDOUS PROPERTIES; HEALTH EFFECTS; INTERCONVERSIONS; RECEPTOR MODEL; ROCK TYPES; TOXIC TRACE ELEMENTS;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84884927613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119950127.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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