Bacterial growth on distant naphthalene diffusing through water, air, and water-saturated and nonsaturated porous media

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2286-2293

  Harms, Hauke ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAPHTHALENE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIODEGRADATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029946609     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.7.2286-2293.1996     Document Type: Article

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