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A human health risk assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soils of Yanqi Basin, Silk Road Economic Belt, China

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Pages 1352-1366 | Received 30 Sep 2017, Accepted 30 Nov 2017, Published online: 18 Jan 2018

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