Degradation half-life times of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs for environmental fate modeling

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 9-11, 2000, Pages 943-949

  Sinkkonen, Seija ^a   Paasivirta, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fate modeling; Half life time; PCBs; PCDDs; PCDFs; Temperature

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; HALF LIFE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PCB; PCDD; PCDF;

AIR; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HALF LIFE TIME; HYDROLYSIS; MODEL; POLLUTANT; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

BENZOFURANS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HALF-LIFE; KINETICS; PHOTOLYSIS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0033999540     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00337-9     Document Type: Article

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