Detection and decontamination of residual energetics from ordnance and explosives scrap

Biodegradation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-48

  Jung, Carina M ^a   Newcombe, David A ^a   Crawford, Don L ^a   Crawford, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4,6 trinitrotoluene (TNT); Anaerobic bioslurry; Ion mobility spectrometer; Ordnance and explosives

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECONTAMINATION; EXPLOSIVES; MORTAR; ORDNANCE; SOILS; SPECTROMETERS; WATER;

ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETERS;

BIODEGRADATION;

EXPLOSIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE;

EXPLOSIVE; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; BIOREMEDIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRINITROTOLUENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 1642501117     PISSN: 09239820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BIOD.0000009961.03463.a6     Document Type: Article

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