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SUBMITTER: Van Geen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3050603 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Geen A A Zheng Y Y Goodbred S S Horneman A A Aziz Z Z Cheng Z Z Stute M M Mailloux B B Weinman B B Hoque M A MA Seddique A A AA Hossain M S MS Chowdhury S H SH Ahmed K M KM
Environmental science & technology 20080401 7
Whereas serious health consequences of widespread consumption of groundwater elevated in As have been documented in several South Asian countries, the mechanisms responsible for As mobilization in reducing aquifers remain poorly understood. We document here a previously unrecognized and consistent relationship between dissolved As concentrations in reducing groundwater and the phosphate-mobilizable As content of aquifer sediment for a set of precisely depth-matched samples from across Bangladesh ...[more]