Using multiple criteria for fingerprinting unknown oil samples having very similar chemical composition

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 251-262

  Wang, Zhendi ^a   Fingas, M ^a   Sigouin, L ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomarker; GC FID; GC MS; n alkane; Oil spill; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036755615     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2002.0098     Document Type: Article

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