Vanadium: Environmental Pollution and Health Effects

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 628-636

  Gummow, B ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Environmental pollution; Health effects; Presence; Review; Symptoms; Tissue concentrations; Toxicity; Uses; Vanadium

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069877072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00661-9     Document Type: Chapter

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