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Mercury Pollution Exploration in Latvia with High-Sensitivity Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 7 (2011): Issue -1 (December 2011)
By: Egils Bogans,  Zanda Gavare,  Anda Svagere,  Rita Poikane and  Jānis Skudra  
Open Access
|Jan 2012

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10145-011-0026-y | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 39 - 45
Published on: Jan 31, 2012
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Mercury in environment,
mercury monitoring,
mercury background in Latvia,
Zeeman atomic absorption spectroscopy
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

© 2012 Egils Bogans, Zanda Gavare, Anda Svagere, Rita Poikane, Jānis Skudra, published by Riga Technical University
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Volume 7 (2011): Issue -1 (December 2011)