Mercury in environmental samples from a waterbody contaminated by gold mining in Colombia, South America.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Science of the Total Environment

• Publication date

  1998-06-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00175-2PMID 9695173
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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