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The Distribution of Mercury in British Estuarine Sediments and Its Availability to Deposit-Feeding Bivalves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. J. Langston
W. J. Langston
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
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The recognition that non-essential metals, such as mercury, cadmium and lead, could, upon entering aquatic environments, produce harmful effects to man, directly or through food chains, has resulted in studies directed towards the identification of potentially hazardous levels.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 667 - 684
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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