Polyethylene devices: Passive samplers for measuring dissolved hydrophobic organic compounds in aquatic environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1317-1323

  Adams, Rachel G ^a,b   Lohmann, Rainer ^a,c   Fernandez, Loretta A ^a   MacFarlane, John K ^a   Gschwend, Philip M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYETHYLENES;

PARTITION CONSTANTS; SEMIPERMEABLE MEMBRANE DEVICES (SPMD); SETSCHENOW CONSTANTS;

WATER ANALYSIS;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; OCTANOL; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; POLYETHYLENE; PYRENE; SEA WATER; TETRACHLOROBIPHENYL; WATER;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYETHYLENES; WATER ANALYSIS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ETHYLENE; MEMBRANE; PAH; PCB; PCDD; PHENANTHRENE; POLYMER; PYRENE; SAMPLER; SAMPLING;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEVICE; ENTHALPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LABORATORY TEST; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; SALINITY; SAMPLER; SEA POLLUTION; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MASSACHUSETTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYETHYLENE; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BOSTON HARBOR; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847184292     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0621593     Document Type: Article

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