Unexpected arsenic compounds in low-rank coals

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3450-3454

  Šlejkovec, Zdenka ^a   Kanduč, Tjaša ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; COAL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); METHANOL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); WATER;

ANTIBODY ASSAYS; COAL BASINS; INORGANIC ARSENIC; MARINE AEROSOLS;

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; ARSONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CACODYLIC ACID; CARBON; COAL; METHANEARSONIC ACID; METHANOL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; TETRAMETHYLARSONIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CZECH REPUBLIC; SLOVENIA; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 18944392576     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0400990     Document Type: Article

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