Carbon isotopic fractionation during aerobic vinyl chloride degradation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1064-1070

  Chartrand, Michelle M G ^a   Waller, Alison ^a   Mattes, Timothy E ^b,c   Elsner, Martin ^a   Lacrampe Couloume, Georges ^a   Gossett, James M ^b   Edwards, Elizabeth A ^a   Lollar, Barbara Sherwood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES;

AEROBIC VINYL CHLORIDE DEGRADATION; ANAEROBIC REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; BOND BREAKING PROCESSES; VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY;

VINYL RESINS;

CARBON; CARCINOGEN; GROUND WATER; VINYL CHLORIDE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DECHLORINATION; FRACTIONATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DECHLORINATION; EPOXIDATION; FRACTIONATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; VIBRATION;

BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MYCOBACTERIUM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SP.; NOCARDIOIDES SP.;

EID: 13844275002     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0492945     Document Type: Article

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