Uptake of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) from water by phreatophytes in the absence and presence of perchlorate as a co-contaminant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 7374-7380

  Yifru, Dawit D ^a   Nzengung, Valentine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; CARCINOGENS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); IMPURITIES; TISSUE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER;

N-NITROSODIMETHYLAMINE (NDMA); PERCHLORATES; PHREATOPHYTES;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

CARCINOGEN; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; PERCHLORATE; WATER;

BIOREACTORS; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); IMPURITIES; TISSUE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER;

CARCINOGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ORGANIC NITROGEN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ROOT; TREE;

ARTICLE; BLACK WILLOW; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXTRACTION; GREENHOUSE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PLANT TISSUE; POPLAR; THYROID GLAND; TREE; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; HYDROPONICS; NITROSO COMPOUNDS; PERCHLORIC ACID; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; POPULUS; SALIX; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

POPULUS DELTOIDES; SALIX; SALIX NIGRA;

EID: 33845317292     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es060449d     Document Type: Article

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