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Improvement of the BCR three step sequential extraction procedure prior to the certification of new sediment and soil reference materials

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Environmental Monitoring, Engineering, Trace Element Geochemistry +22

Multivariate analysis of heavy metal contamination in urban dusts of Xi'an, Central China

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Heavy metal distribution and chemical speciation in tailings and soils around a Pb–Zn mine in Spain

E. Ruiz, Jacinto Alonso‐Azcárate, Jesusa Rincón · Journal of Environmental Management · 2008 · 722 citations

Heavy Metal Distribution, Mining Environment, Environmental Chemistry +7

Multivariate interpolation to incorporate thematic surface data using inverse distance weighting (IDW)

Patrick Bartier, Christina Keller · Computers & Geosciences · 1996 · 600 citations

Geometric Modeling, Geometric Interpolation, Engineering +11