Chemical sequential extraction for metal partitioning in environmental solid samples

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  • 1Departamento de Química Analitica y Alimentaria, Area de Química Analítica, Facultad de Ciencias (Química), Universidad de Vigo, As Lagoas-Marcosende s/n, 36200 Vigo, Spain.

Journal of Environmental Monitoring : JEM
|January 2, 2003
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