A unified approach to exposure assessment by computer models for degradation reactions and soil accumulation: The triazine herbicide example

Chemosphere

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1811-1823

  Behrendt, Herwart ^a   Altschuh, Joachim ^a   Sixt, Stefan ^a   Gasteiger, Johann ^b   Höllering, Robert ^b   Kostka, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Metabolites; Ranking; Reaction prediction; S triazines; Structure fate relationships

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; TRIAZINE;

HERBICIDE; SOIL POLLUTION; TRIAZINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METABOLITE; PREDICTION; SOIL POLLUTION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0033120945     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00396-8     Document Type: Article

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