Environmental process descriptors for TNT, TNT-related compounds and picric acid in marine sediment slurries

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1262-1266

  Yost, Sally L ^a,b   Pennington, Judith C ^b   Brannon, James M ^b   Hayes, Charolett A ^a  

^a SpecPro Inc   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Explosives; Kinetics; Marine; Picric acid; Sorption; TNT

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PICRIC ACID; TNT;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEGRADATION; MARINE APPLICATIONS; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENTS; SLURRIES;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PICRIC ACID; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER;

DETECTION METHOD; EXPLOSIVE; HALF LIFE; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC ACID; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; REACTION KINETICS; SLURRY; SORPTION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRINITROTOLUENE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WATER TRANSPORT;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PICRATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRINITROBENZENES; TRINITROTOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34447631347     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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