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Metallic elements study on fine and coarse particulates during daytime and nighttime periods at a traffic sampling site

✍ Scribed by Guor-Cheng Fang; Yuh-Shen Wu; Jyh-Cherng Chen; Peter Pi-Cheng Fu; Cheng-Nan Chang; Ming-Hsiang Chen

Book ID: 113890780
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 413 KB
Volume: 345
Category: Article
ISSN: 0048-9697
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.10.020

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