Recent developments in formulating model descriptors for subsurface transformation and sorption of trinitrotoluene

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 829, Issue , 1997, Pages 219-229

  Myers, Tommy E ^a   Townsend, Dan M ^b  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLUENE DERIVATIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; DRUG TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 0031582843     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48577.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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