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Clean Sampling and Analysis of River and Estuarine Waters for Trace Metal Studies
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Studies of channel sediments contaminated with organics and heavy metals

Maria Claudia Barbosa1, Márcio de Souza Soares de Almeida, Digna Faria Mariz

  • 1Civil Engineering Program, COPPE-Graduate School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, P.O. Box 68506, 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Journal of Hazardous Materials
|June 5, 2004
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