Occurrence of organotin compounds in the aquatic environment of Greece

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 181, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 201-210

  Thomaidis, Nikolaos S ^a   Stasinakis, Athanasios S ^b   Gatidou, Georgia ^a,b   Morabito, Roberto ^c   Massanisso, Paolo ^c   Lekkas, Themistokles D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Butyltins; Coastal areas; Greece; Monitoring; Surface waters; TBT; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; SURFACE WATERS;

BUTYLTINS; TOLUENE EXTRACTABLE ORGANOTINS (TEOT);

WATER ANALYSIS;

BUTYLTIN; DIBUTYLTIN; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; SEA WATER; TOLUENE; TRIBUTYLTIN; TRIPHENYLTIN;

COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; SURFACE WATERS; WATER ANALYSIS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREECE; LAKE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RIVER; SCREENING; SEASHORE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247323951     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-006-9293-9     Document Type: Article

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