Stimulation of microbial para-dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls that have persisted in housatonic river sediment for decades

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 687-694

  Bedard, Donna L ^a   Bunnell, Stephen C ^a,b   Smullen, Lynn A ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; RIVER; SEDIMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030071915     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es950463i     Document Type: Article

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