Removal of organic contaminant toxicity from sediments - Early work toward development of a toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) method

Chemosphere

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 389-406

  Lebo, J A ^a   Huckins, J N ^a   Petty, J D ^a   Ho, K T ^b  

^a Jackson Field Research Station   (United States)

^b Atlantic Ecology Division National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; ECOTOXICITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL TREATMENT;

EID: 0033181017     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00003-X     Document Type: Article

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