Fingerprinting and age-dating of gasoline releases - A case study

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 91-99

  Oudijk, Gil ^a  

^a Triassic Technology Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Age dating techniques; Environmental litigation; Gasoline; Groundwater contamination; Isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744503576     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920590913994     Document Type: Article

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