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A review of tungsten: from environmental obscurity to scrutiny

A Koutsospyros1, W Braida, C Christodoulatos

  • 1Department of Mechanical, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT 06516, USA. akoutsospyros@newhaven.edu

Journal of Hazardous Materials
|December 14, 2005
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