Environmental geochemistry of high-arsenic aquifer systems

Heavy Metals in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-154

  Wang, Yanxin ^a   Deng, Yamin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

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