Evaluating environmental persistence

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2148-2158

  Webster, Eva ^a   Mackay, Don ^a   Wania, Frank ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Degradation; Model; Multimedia; Partitioning; Persistence

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DEGRADATION; ECOTOXICITY; HALF LIFE TIME; MODEL; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

EID: 0031761356     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1998)017<2148:EEP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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