Acute temperature dependency in the cleansing of tarry feathers utilizing magnetic particles

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-27

  Orbell, John D ^a   Van Dao, Hien ^a   Ngeh, Lawrence N ^a   Bigger, Stephen W ^a   Healy, Margaret ^b   Jessop, Rosalind ^b   Dann, Peter ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Parks   (Australia)

Author keywords

Feathers; Iron powder; Magnetic; Oil removal; Temperature dependency

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 23144465122     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-005-0107-x     Document Type: Article

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