Lead and pollution
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The current lead pollution problem.
IN the past few years, pollution of the environment by lead has received considerable attention and evoked a variety of responses the more extreme of which have been readily accepted for publication in the National Press. The manifold purposes that man has found for the utilization of lead in the past and at the present time have caused its dissemination into the environment which, in some inst...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/311401b0