Effects of wood treated with chromated copper arsenate on aquatic biota

Environmental Impacts of Treated Wood

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 173-189

  Weis, Judith S ^a   Weis, Peddrick ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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