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Organic and Inorganic Constituents of the Amazon River

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THE Amazon River discharge rate is of the order of 6 × 1012 m3/yr which represents some 20 per cent of the entire world-wide river runoff1,2. Analytical data for this large tropical river, unpolluted by man, are scarce and, for some chemical species, entirely lacking. The available data compiled by Livingston3 are those originally presented in 1924 for Clarke4.

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WILLIAMS, P. Organic and Inorganic Constituents of the Amazon River. Nature 218, 937–938 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218937a0

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