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Oil Spillage and Heavy Metals Toxicity Risk in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
BACKGROUND. Heavy metals are known to elicit toxic effects which negatively affect human health. Crude oil is known to contain heavy metals and oil spills contaminate the environment and can result in human exposures to heavy metals. As the seat of crude oil activities, the Niger Delta region experi...
Autores principales: | Chinedu, Enegide, Chukwuemeka, Chukwuma Kelechukwu |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Black Smith Institute
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257162/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524864 http://dx.doi.org/10.5696/2156-9614-8.19.180905 |
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