The biological effectiveness of wood modified with linear chain carboxylic acid anhydrides against the subterranean termites Reticulitermes flavipes

Holz als Roh - und Werkstoff

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 249-252

  Papadopoulos, Antonios N ^a   Avtzis, Dimitrios N ^b   Avtzis, Nikolaos D ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC ACIDS;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; BIOPROTECTION; CARBOXYLIC ACID ANHYDRIDES; HOMOLOGOUS SERIES; LINEAR CHAINS; ON-RESISTANCE; REACTION TIME; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; WEIGHT PERCENT;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

EID: 49049091758     PISSN: 00183768     EISSN: 1436736X     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00107-008-0252-6     Document Type: Article

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