Evaluation of environmental samples containing heavy hydrocarbon components in environmental forensic investigations

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-32

  Raia, Joseph C ^a   Blakley, Calvin R ^a   Fuex, Anthony N ^a   Villalanti, Dan C ^a   Fahrenthold, Paul D ^b  

^a Triton Analytics Corp   (United States)

^b Fahrenthold and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

6 fuel oil (bunker fuel); Diesel fuel; High molecular weight (HMW) hydrocarbons; Hydrocarbon fingerprints; Jet fuel; Motor oil; Petroleum derived (petrogenic) and combustion derived (pyrogenic) hydrocarbons; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842636334     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920490424015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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