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The use of k0-INAA for determination of surface contamination of some aquatic plants by trace elements

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Adsorption of fine suspended material on the surface of aquatic plants may lead to great problems in the interpretation of results for their trace element composition, since it is quite impossible to clean the inorganic material from the biota completely. A carefully designed field experiment was performed in the River Stella in North-Eastern Italy aimed at studying the adsorption of fine suspended material on benthic algae-periphyton. More than 20 elements, were determined in water, suspended material and biota using k 0-INAA, and enrichment factors were calculated for selected elements using Sc as a normalizing element.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Z. Jeran

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, P.O. Box 3000, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    R. Jaćimović

  3. ANPA-National Environmental Protection Agency, Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144, Roma, Italy

    U. Sansone & M. Bell

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Jeran, Z., Jaćimović, R., Sansone, U. et al. The use of k0-INAA for determination of surface contamination of some aquatic plants by trace elements. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 257, 633–637 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026156630693

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