Antimony in municipal waste.
Antimony content in municipal waste was studied. Sampled municipal waste was dried, crushed and analyzed. Antimony determinations were performed by Kjeldahl decomposition--batch hydride generation spectrometry and neutron activation analysis. Overall content of antimony in waste was 40-50 g/t raw waste. It was estimated than 20% of the annual production of antimony was discarded as municipal waste in Japan. Leaching of antimony from antimony-added materials may occur, because "small tips" involved considerable amounts of antimony.
Watanabe
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Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Japan.
Inoue
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Ito
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D000965:Antimony / Q000032:analysis*; D005735:Garbage; D017745:Incineration; D007564:Japan; D009501:Neutron Activation Analysis; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
D000965:Antimony