On the degradation of methyl bromide in sea water

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1773-1776

  Jeffers, Peter M ^a,b   Wolfe, N Lee ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE; RATE CONSTANTS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REACTION KINETICS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CHLORIDE IONS; EXCHANGE RATES; FIRST ORDER; HYDROLYSIS RATE CONSTANTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; METHYL BROMIDE; SECOND ORDERS;

SEAWATER; DEGRADATION;

ABIOTIC OCEANIC DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; CHLORIDE; METHYL BROMIDE;

CHLORIDE ION EXCHANGE; DEGRADATION; HYDROLYSIS; METHYL BROMIDE; SEA WATER;

EID: 0030199459     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01670     Document Type: Article

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