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Traffic-borne platinum pollution in municipal sewage treatment plants

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Since the catalytic converter has been introduced to German cars the platinum concentrations in the soils along the highways (Zereini et al. 1993, Cubelic et al. 1997, Zereini et al. 1997) and urban roads (Farago et al. 1996) have increased.

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Laschka, D., Nachtwey, M. (2000). Traffic-borne platinum pollution in municipal sewage treatment plants. In: Zereini, F., Alt, F. (eds) Anthropogenic Platinum-Group Element Emissions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59678-0_3

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