Freely dissolved concentrations and sediment-water activity ratios of PCDD/Fs and PCBs in the open Baltic sea

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 8733-8739

  Cornelissen, Gerard ^a,b   Wiberg, Karin ^c   Broman, D A G ^a   Arp, Hans Peter H ^b   Persson, Ylva ^c   Sundqvist, Kristina ^c   Jonsson, Per ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAL RESINS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON BLACK; DISSOLUTION; EXTRACTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SORPTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; BALTIC SEAS; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BLACK CARBONS; DIFFUSIVE FLUXES; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FIELD CAMPAIGNS; OVERLYING WATERS; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; PCDD/FS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO- P - DIOXINS; POLYOXYMETHYLENE; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TOXIC EQUIVALENTS; WATER ACTIVITIES;

SEDIMENTS;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; SEA WATER;

PCB; PCDD; SAMPLER; SORPTION;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ADSORPTION; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN; WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 57449092547     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8018379     Document Type: Article

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