A critical review of Henry's law constants for environmental applications

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 205-297

  Staudinger, Jeff ^a   Roberts, Paul V ^a  

^a Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

air water partition coefficient; experimental procedures; quantitative property property relationships (QPPRs); quantitative structure property relationships (QSPRs); temperature dependency; UNIFAC

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029817851     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389609388492     Document Type: Review

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