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Bangladesh and Vietnam: Different groundwater compositions require different approaches to arsenic mitigation

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (2008)

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Volume 42, Issue 17, Pages 6318-6323

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC

DOI: 10.1021/es7028284

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