Residual indoor contamination from World Trade Center rubble fires as indicated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon profiles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1172-1177

  Pleil, Joachim D ^a,b   Funk, William E ^b   Rappaport, Stephen M ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; FIRE HAZARDS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PULMONARY DISEASES; SMOKE; SOOT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CATASTROPHIC DESTRUCTION; DISCRIMINATOR METHODS; DUST CLOUDS; RANDOM SAMPLES;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

INDICATOR; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

DUST; FIRE HAZARDS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PULMONARY DISEASES; SMOKE; SOOT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HEALTH IMPACT; INDOOR AIR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAH; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CITY; CLEANING; COUGHING; DISASTER; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIBER; FIRE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LUNG CAPACITY; MASS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SMOKE; SOOT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; NEW JERSEY; NEW YORK; NORTH CAROLINA; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33144486883     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0517015     Document Type: Article

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