Tracing organic contaminants in groundwater: A new methodology using compound-specific isotopic analysis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3193-3197

  Dempster, Helen S ^a   Lollar, Barbara Sherwood ^a   Feenstra, Stanley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Applied Groundwater Research Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLBENZENE; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY (IRMS); PENTANE;

BENZENE; CARBON; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARAFFINS; TOLUENE; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS; XYLENE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

BENZENE; CARBON 13; ETHYLBENZENE; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PENTANE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BTEX; CARBON ISOTOPE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TRACER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

EID: 0343471386     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9701873     Document Type: Article

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