Tenax® extraction as a tool to evaluate the availability of polybrominated diphenyl ethers, DDT, and DDT metabolites in sediments

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1250-1256

  De La Cal, Agustina ^a   Eljarrat, Ethel ^a   Grotenhuis, Tim ^b   Barceló, Damià ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Desorption; Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Tenax

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; APPLIED (CO); DESORPTION MODELS; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE (DDT); HIGH AVAILABILITY (HA); IN ORDER; LONG TIME; MOLECULAR SIZES; POLY-BROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDE); SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION (SPE);

DESORPTION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHANE; 1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; CHLORPHENOTANE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; DITHIOTHREITOL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; POLYMER; TENAX;

DDT; DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METABOLITE; MODELING; PBDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BROMINATION; DESORPTION; EVALUATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR SIZE; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

ADSORPTION; DITHIOTHREITOL; ETHERS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERS;

EID: 45249091483     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-513.1     Document Type: Article

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