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Medico-ecological Aspects Of Hydrochemistry Of Uzbekistan

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

5

Pages

8

Published

2001

Size

876 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/EHR010121

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

E. Kamilova and G. Rakhmatkariev

Abstract

Medico-ecological aspects of hydrochemistry of Uzbekistan E. Kamilova & G. Rakhmatkariev* * Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Abstract Investigation of the relationship between environmental changes and population health constitutes one of the most important parts of human ecology. An integrated study of the ecological and sanitary status of water resources in Uzbekistan, and a description interrelations between rate of their contamination and population health status are presented in this paper. Concentration of manganese, iron, cobalt, zinc, cadmium, chromium, rubidium, selenium, scandium antimony, strontium, lithium, lead, mercury, silver, aluminum, beryllium, molybdenum, nickel, tin and copper were detected by method of Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry. It was revealed that strontium and lithium contents exceed the maximum permissible concentration (MFC) in water sources o

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