Monitoring losses of copper based wood preservatives in the Thames estuary

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-375

  Hingston, J A ^a   Murphy, R J ^b   Lester, J N ^c  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Chromium; Copper; Wood preservation

Indexed keywords

BIOCIDE; COPPER LOSS MONITORING; MARINE CONSTRUCTION STRUCTURE; WOOD PRESERVATIVE;

CONDITION MONITORING; COPPER; ESTUARIES; LEACHING;

WOOD PRESERVATION;

AMINE; ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BIOCIDE; CHROMIUM; COPPER; COPPER ARSENATE; METAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOOD PROTECTING AGENT;

ACCUMULATION; ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COPPER; FIELD METHOD; LEACHING; MONITORING; PESTICIDE; TIMBER; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; LABORATORY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; STANDARD; TREE; WOOD;

ADSORPTION; AMINE OXIDASE (COPPER-CONTAINING); ARSENATES; COPPER; DISINFECTANTS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FIXATIVES; RIVERS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WOOD;

COPPER; ESTUARIES; LEACHING; MONITORING; WOOD PRESERVATION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33747470683     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.11.021     Document Type: Article

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