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Yize Pan1, Joseph Rossabi2, Chonggen Pan3

  • 1Research Center of Coastal and Urban Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China; Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, 315100, China; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, 60208, USA.

Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Keywords:
Fulvic acidHumic acidLead leachingStabilizationStrength

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