The use of stable isotopes to differentiate specific source markers for MTBE

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 215-221

  Smallwood, Barbara J ^a   Philp, R Paul ^a   Burgoyne, Thomas W ^b   Allen, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forensic geochemistry; Gasoline; irmGCMS; MTBE; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035662456     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2000.0023     Document Type: Article

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