The Medical Geochemistry of Dusts, Soils, and Other Earth Materials

Treatise on Geochemistry

Volumn 9-9, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-61

  Plumlee, G S ^a   Ziegler, T L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; MINERALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY;

BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; EARTH MATERIALS; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; HEALTH EFFECTS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; OXIDATION STATE; PARTICLE SIZE AND MORPHOLOGIES; SOLUBILISATION; TOXIC RESPONSE;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84942414377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-08-043751-6/09050-2     Document Type: Chapter

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