A comparison of extraction techniques for the determination of metals in soil
A growing issue in groundwater studies concerns the distinction between anthropological and geological metal contaminants in soil. Current extraction methods, such as hot acid extraction, result in the digestion of the sample matrix which may obscure the origin of the contaminant. Since metals from...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44240 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08142009-040540/ |