The awareness of how much damage oil-spills, solvents and heavy metals can do in the environment has led to an explosive growth in new monitoring sensors. Now Rosario Sausa from the US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland, US, has developed a rugged reliable sensor (Patent 5759859) that can provide an almost instantaneous analysis of soil contamination.
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