Use of the synthetic wipe method for estimating dislodgeable arsenic and evaluating the physical factors that affect the levels of potential exposure to children from in-service wood treated with chromated copper arsenate

Environmental Impacts of Treated Wood

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 237-256

  Shibata, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

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