Deriving the Metal and Alloy Networks of Modern Technology

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4082-4090

  Ohno, Hajime ^a,b   Nuss, Philip ^a,d   Chen, Wei Qiang ^a,c   Graedel, Thomas E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM COPPER ALLOYS;

ALLOYING METALS; HUMAN SOCIETY; INPUT-OUTPUT; LARGE AMOUNTS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; METAL AND ALLOYS; METAL NETWORKS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES;

METALS;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; NIOBIUM; STEEL; TUNGSTEN; VANADIUM;

ALUMINUM; HEAVY METAL; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; IRON; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INPUT OUTPUT BASED MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MACHINE; METAL INDUSTRY; METAL RECOVERY; MOTOR VEHICLE; CHEMISTRY; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

ALLOYS; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964319704     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05093     Document Type: Article

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