Determination of dioxins/furans and PCBs by quadrupole ion-trap gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 305-365

  Plomley, Jeffry B ^a   Lauševic, Mila ^b   March, Raymond E ^c  

^a MDS SCIEX   (Canada)

^b Tehnolosko metalurski fakultet   (Yugoslavia)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ANIMAL; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FURANS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 0348097546     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2787(2000)19:5<305::AID-MAS4>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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