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Fragmentation of hunting bullets observed with synchrotron radiation: Lighting up the source of a lesser-known lead exposure pathway

Bullet fragments have been previously observed in the remains and edible portions of big game animals that were harvested using rifles. The fragmentation issue has attracted attention because traditional hunting bullets are more than 70% lead, which is toxic to humans and scavengers in the ecosystem...

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Autores principales: Leontowich, Adam F. G., Panahifar, Arash, Ostrowski, Ryan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9401160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36001533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271987

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