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Fluoride in bones of small rodents near an aluminium reduction plant

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Samples totalling 189 field voles (Microtus agrestis) and 281 wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus), two species of small rodents, were trapped in 1977 at three 5 km intervals on two transects radiating NE and SE from an AI reduction plant on the island of Anglesey, North Wales.

Bone fluoride concentration in these animals showed a downward trend along each of the transects, slightly more marked to the south-east, a result consistent with airborne dispersal of material from the stack. Fluoride concentrations in animals from very close to the reduction plant varied widely, indicating heavy, uneven pollution from the potrooms; values for field voles ranged from 60 to 3700 μg g−1 and for wood mice from 13 t0 8500 μg g−1.

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Walton, K.C. Fluoride in bones of small rodents near an aluminium reduction plant. Water Air Soil Pollut 26, 65–70 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00299489

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