PCDD/Fs in Norwegian and U.K. soils: Implications for sources and environmental cycling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4784-4792

  Hassanin, Ashraf ^a   Lee, Robert G M ^a   Steinnes, Eiliv ^b   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; CONDENSATION; CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FRACTIONATION; LAND USE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL CYCLING; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POP); POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS (PCDD/FS);

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

DIBENZOFURAN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FOREST; LAND USE; NORWAY; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

BENZOFURANS; DIFFUSION; GREAT BRITAIN; NORWAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 22044437072     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0505189     Document Type: Article

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