Concentrations and composition of PCB congeners in the air around stored used capacitors containing PCB insulator oil in a suburb of Bangkok, Thailand

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 289-297

  Watanabe, Seiji ^a   Laovakul, Wanna ^b   Boonyathumanondh, Ruchaya ^b   Tabucanon, Monthip S ^b   Ohgaki, Shinichiro ^c  

^a Ehime Women's Junior College   (Japan)

^b Environmental Research and Training Center   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DUMPING; SAMPLING; SOIL; STORAGE; TANK; THAILAND; TROPICS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0029976978     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(95)00113-1     Document Type: Article

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