Properties of agricultural aerosol released during wheat harvest threshing, plowing and sowing

Journal of Environmental Sciences (China)

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1903-1912

  Telloli, Chiara ^a   Malaguti, Antonella ^a   Mircea, Mihaela ^a   Tassinari, Renzo ^b   Vaccaro, Carmela ^b   Berico, Massimo ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Agriculture; ICP MS and OCEC analyses; SEM EDS

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL OPERATIONS; CLAY MINERALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS; ORGANIC CARBON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROMETERS; ICP-MS AND OCEC ANALYSES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (ICPMS); MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE MEMBRANES; SEM-EDS;

AGRICULTURE;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CLAY MINERAL; HARVESTING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; PLOWING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOWING; WHEAT;

ITALY; PO VALLEY;

AEROSOL;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ITALY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHEAT;

AEROSOLS; AGRICULTURE; ITALY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARTICLE SIZE; TRITICUM;

EID: 84906839270     PISSN: 10010742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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