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Arsenic Contamination

Arsenic Contamination is a groundwater quality issue characterized by the presence of arsenic, a toxic inorganic element, in aquifer systems at concentrations exceeding safe regulatory thresholds, primarily due to natural geochemical processes or anthropogenic activities.

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Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency.

A H Smith, Elena O. Lingas, Mizanur Rahman · PubMed · 2000 · 2K citations · Full text

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Worldwide Occurrences of Arsenic in Ground Water

D. Kirk Nordstrom · Science · 2002 · 1.6K citations

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Global threat of arsenic in groundwater

Joel Podgorski, Michael Berg · Science · 2020 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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Arsenic fractionation in soils using an improved sequential extraction procedure

Walter W. Wenzel, Natalie Kirchbaumer, Thomas Prohaska et al. · Analytica Chimica Acta · 2001 · 1.4K citations

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Mechanism of arsenic release to groundwater, Bangladesh and West Bengal

Ross T. Nickson, J.M. McArthur, Peter Ravenscroft et al. · Applied Geochemistry · 2000 · 1.4K citations

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  1. PB
    Prosun Bhattacharya

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

    85 publications · 7.8K citations

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  2. AA
    Andrew A. Meharg

    University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    71 publications · 10.1K citations

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  3. KM
    Kazi Matin Ahmed

    University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    74 publications · 8.3K citations

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  4. MM
    Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman‬

    University of Newcastle Australia, Australia

    54 publications · 5.7K citations

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  5. JB
    Jochen Bundschuh

    University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    54 publications · 4.9K citations

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    74 h-index

    1.2K publications

    69.1K citations

  2. Jadavpur University

    Kolkata, India

    55 h-index

    431 publications

    61.3K citations

  3. Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

    Dübendorf, Switzerland

    55 h-index

    257 publications

    45.1K citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    55 h-index

    461 publications

    41.4K citations

  5. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    53 h-index

    346 publications

    32.9K citations

  6. University of Dhaka

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    53 h-index

    286 publications

    33.4K citations

  7. University of Aberdeen

    Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    52 h-index

    372 publications

    65K citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    52 h-index

    471 publications

    32.4K citations

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  1. Environmental Science & Technology

    283 publications · 35.6K citations

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  2. The Science of The Total Environment

    489 publications · 31.8K citations

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  3. Applied Geochemistry

    240 publications · 19.8K citations

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  4. Environmental Pollution

    205 publications · 15.5K citations

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  5. Journal of Hazardous Materials

    263 publications · 15.8K citations

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