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Original Articles

Integrated risk assessment of potentially toxic elements and particle pollution in urban road dust of megacity of Pakistan

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Pages 1810-1831 | Received 12 Mar 2019, Accepted 23 Apr 2019, Published online: 03 Jun 2019

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