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Trace-element speciation and partitioning in environmental geochemistry and health

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Establishment of the chemical form and associations of trace elements is important in the scientific and medical fields related to environmental geochemistry and health. Fundamental understanding of trace-element behaviour, the realistic formulation of historical perspectives of trace-element contamination, an assessment of environmental transformation processes and a thorough appraisal of environment-related ill health and disease all depend on knowledge of the chemical speciation and partitioning of trace elements. These topics and the development of analytical speciation techniques and procedures are discussed with reference to trace-element studies in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow, on lacustrine sediments and water, the atmosphere, soil and street dirt of an urban environment and human biological fluids.

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Farmer, J.G., Gibson, M.J. & Lovell, M.A. Trace-element speciation and partitioning in environmental geochemistry and health. Minerals and the Environment 5, 57–66 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02084898

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