Concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in air and soil on a rural-urban transect across a major UK conurbation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4548-4553

  Harrad, Stuart ^a   Hunter, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONGENERS; GRASSLAND SOIL; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDE);

AIR POLLUTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; VENTILATION;

ETHERS;

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

AIR POLLUTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHERS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; VENTILATION;

ACCUMULATION; AIR; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; PBDE; RURAL AREA; SOIL; TRANSECT; URBAN AREA;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EUROPE; FOREST; GRASSLAND; NORWAY; RURAL AREA; SOIL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; CITIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PHENYL ETHERS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREAT LAKES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST MIDLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746582736     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0606879     Document Type: Article

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