Effects of charring on mass, organic carbon, and stable carbon isotope composition of wood

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1207-1223

  Czimczik, Claudia I ^a   Preston, Caroline M ^b   Schmidt, Michael W I ^c   Werner, Roland A ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON BLACK; COMBUSTION; COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXIDATION;

SOFTWOODS;

BLACK CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FIRE; ORGANIC CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CARBON BLACK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXIDATION; SOFTWOODS;

EID: 0038185320     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00137-7     Document Type: Article

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