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Natural Breakdown Of Petroleum Underground Can Lace Arsenic Into Groundwater
2015-01-27 04:23:43| oilandgasonline Home Page
In a long-term field study, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Virginia Tech scientists have found that changes in geochemistry from the natural breakdown of petroleum hydrocarbons underground can promote the chemical release (mobilization) of naturally occurring arsenic into groundwater.
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