Extending the Rayleigh equation to allow competing isotope fractionating pathways to improve quantification of biodegradation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4004-4010

  Van Breukelen, Boris M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; FRACTIONATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

KINETIC ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION FACTOR; METHYL TERT-BUTYL ETHER (MTBE); RAYLEIGH EQUATION;

ISOTOPES;

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; CARBON; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; RATE CONSTANTS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MTBE; OXIC CONDITIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REACTION KINETICS;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENT; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DEUTERIUM; ETHYLENE DICHLORIDES; KINETICS; METHYL ETHERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 34250186409     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0628452     Document Type: Article

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