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Clean Sampling and Analysis of River and Estuarine Waters for Trace Metal Studies
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Surface water transport of lead at a shooting range
J R Craig1, J D Rimstidt, C A Bonnaffon
1Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
|September 4, 1999
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