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Urban Ecology

Physicochemical and elemental contamination assessment in groundwater samples of Khairpur Mir's, Pakistan

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Pages 870-885 | Received 10 Nov 2016, Accepted 25 Dec 2016, Published online: 07 Mar 2017

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