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End-of-life mobile phones parts contain toxic metals that make them hazardous, but can also serve as resource reserves for such metals Cover

End-of-life mobile phones parts contain toxic metals that make them hazardous, but can also serve as resource reserves for such metals

Ovidius University Annals of Chemistry
Volume 34 (2023): Issue 2 (July 2023)
By: Bukola Omoyemi Abiodun and  Paschal Okiroro Iniaghe  
Open Access
|Sep 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auoc-2023-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2286-038X | Journal ISSN: 1583-2430
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Language: English
Page range: 83 - 90
Submitted on: Mar 28, 2023
Accepted on: Jul 31, 2023
Published on: Sep 13, 2023
Published by: Ovidius University of Constanta
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
toxic metals,
end-of-life mobile phones,
printed wiring boards,
batteries,
toxicity threshold limit concentration,
Restriction on Hazardous Substances Directive
Related subjects:
Chemistry,
Chemistry, other

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