Environmental aspects of VOCs evolved in the early stages of human decomposition

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 385, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 221-227

  Statheropoulos, M ^a   Agapiou, A ^a   Spiliopoulou, C ^b   Pallis, G C ^a   Sianos, E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cadaver; Environmental impact; Human decay; Physicochemical properties; VOCs

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SIGNALS; HUMAN DECAY; HUMAN DECOMPOSITION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES;

DECAY (ORGANIC); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SAMPLING; THERMAL DESORPTION;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

2 BUTANONE; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE; ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; AMMONIA; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; DIMETHYLTRISULFIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; KETONE; META XYLENE; METHYL ETHYLSULFIDE; OCTANE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; SULFIDE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CHEMICAL CUE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CADAVER; DECOMPOSITION; DESORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL DESORPTION;

ADULT; CADAVER; HUMANS; MALE; NATURAL DISASTERS; ODORS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RESCUE WORK; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 34548486042     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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