A New Method for Low-Temperature Decomposition of Chromites and Dichromium Trioxide using Bromic Acid Evaluated by Chromium Isotope Measurements

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-110

  Chrastný, Vladislav ^a   Rohovec, Jan ^b   Čadková, Eva ^a   Pašava, Jan ^a   Farkaš, Juraj ^a   Novák, Martin ^a  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bromic acid; Chromites; Chromium isotopes; Decomposition; Dichromium trioxide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894275209     PISSN: 16394488     EISSN: 1751908X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2013.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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