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Garelick, H., Jones, H., Dybowska, A., Valsami-Jones, E. (2009). Arsenic Pollution Sources. In: Reviews of Environmental Contamination Volume 197. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 197. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79284-2_2

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