Middle distillate fuel fingerprinting using drimane-based bicyclic sesquiterpanes

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 241-251

  Stout, Scott A ^a,b   Uhler, Allen D ^a   McCarthy, Kevin J ^a  

^a New Fields Environmental Forensics Practice   (United States)

^b NewFields   (United States)

Author keywords

8 (H) drimane; 8 (H) homodrimane; Diesel fuel; Jet fuel; JP 5; Kerosene

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744576321     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920500194407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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