Development of an analytical protocol for forensic identification of chemical warfare agent surrogates

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 383-390

  Kuang, Wenxing ^a,b,c   Fingas, Merv ^b   Li, Ken ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemical warfare agent surrogates; Development of a quick and reliable analytical protocol; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Solid phase micro extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549026515     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920701506664     Document Type: Article

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