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IN a previous communication1, reference was made to research work in progress at Leeds on the reclamation of land covered with pulverized fuel waste (‘fly ash’). Further to that work, we have concluded that aluminium and manganese, as found by Rees and Sidrak2, are not the dominant causes of the toxicity in the ‘fly ashes’ investigated at Leeds.
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HOLLIDAY, R., HODGSON, D., TOWNSEND, W. et al. Plant Growth on ‘Fly Ash’. Nature 181, 1079–1080 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811079a0
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