The sorption potential of octylphenol, a xenobiotic oestrogen, to suspended and bed-sediments collected from industrial and rural reaches of three English rivers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 210-211, Issue , 1998, Pages 271-282

  Johnson, A C ^a   White, C ^a   Besien, T J ^a   Jurgens M D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed sediments; Industrial pollution; Octylphenol; Oestrogen; Particulate organic matter; River Aire; River Calder; River Thames; Sorption; Suspended sediments; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ESTROGEN; OCTYLPHENOL; ORGANIC MATTER; RIVER WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

POLLUTION; RIVER; SORPTION; SUSPENDED LOAD;

OCTYLPHENOL; RIVER WATER QUALITY; SEDIMENT; SORPTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ARTICLE; DESORPTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYSTERESIS; INDUSTRY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

UK, ENGLAND, AIRE RIVER; UK, ENGLAND, CALDER RIVER; UK, ENGLAND, THAMES RIVER;

ALGAE;

EID: 18744417696     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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