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    Speciation of Ionic Organolead Compounds in the Biosphere

    Mounting concern about the occurrence and fate of organic lead compounds in the environment and living systems, has led us to optimize a sensitive speciation methodology for ionic alkyllead determination. The ...

    R. Van Cleuvenbergen, D. Chakraborti in Physico-Chemical Behaviour of Atmospheric … (1987)

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    Ionic alkyllead compounds in environmental water and sediments

    To elucidate the occurrence and fate of ionic alkyllead species in environmental water and sediments, a procedure, based on the existing methodology for speciation of lead in the biosphere, has been optimized....

    D. Chakraborti, R. J. A. Van Cleuvenbergen, F. C. Adams in Sediment/Water Interactions (1989)

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    Arsenic in groundwater in six districts of West Bengal, India: the biggest arsenic calamity in the world: the status report up to August, 1995

    In six districts of West Bengal: Malda, Murshidabad, Bardhaman, Nadia, 24-Parganas (North) and 24-Parganas (South), arsenic has been found in groundwater above the maximum permissible limit recommended by WHO....

    T. R. Chowdhury, B. Kr. Mandal, G. Samanta, G. Kr. Basu, P. P. Chowdhury in Arsenic (1997)

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    Non-cancer effects of chronic arsenicosis with special reference to liver damage

    Patients from the affected area in West Bengal, India, have been treated at our institute since 1983. This chapter presents data on the basis of studies on 156 patients. Eleven patients who stopped drinking ar...

    D. N. Guha Mazumder, J. Das Gupta, A. Santra, A. Pal, A. Ghose, S. Sarkar in Arsenic (1997)

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    Arsenic Groundwater Contamination and Sufferings of People in West Bengal-India and Bangladesh

    Working on West Bengal—s arsenic calamity for last 10 years & in Bangladesh for last 4 years even now we feel we are at the tip of the iceberg. Thus we need to know as early as possible the real magnitude of t...

    U. K. Chowdhury, B. K. Biswas, T. Roy Chowdhury in Trace Elements in Man and Animals 10 (2002)