Assessment of Tannery Industrial Effluents from Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1812-5654
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.2788.2793