Environmental fate of EDTA and DTPA

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 152, Issue , 1997, Pages 85-111

  Sillanpää, Mika ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; METAL; PENTETIC ACID;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; LD 50; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; STANDARD; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ADSORPTION; ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHELATING AGENTS; ECOSYSTEM; EDETIC ACID; FINLAND; LETHAL DOSE 50; METALS; PENTETIC ACID; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 0030631235     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1964-4_3     Document Type: Article

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