Forensic fingerprinting of diamondoids for correlation and differentiation of spilled oil and petroleum products

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5636-5646

  Wang, Zhendi ^a   Yang, Chun ^a   Hollebone, B ^a   Fingas, M ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAMANTANES; DIAMANTANES; DIAMONDOIDS; FORENSIC FINGERPRINTING;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRUDE PETROLEUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OIL SPILLS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PARAFFINS;

ADAMANTANE; ADAMANTANE DERIVATIVE; ALKANE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONGRESSANE; DIAMONDOID; FUEL; OIL; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRUDE PETROLEUM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OIL SPILLS; PARAFFINS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALKANE; BIOMARKER; CRUDE OIL; OIL SPILL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OIL SPILL; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADAMANTANE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM;

EID: 33748806339     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060675n     Document Type: Article

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