Measurements of oxalic acid, oxalates, malonic acid, and malonates in atmospheric particulates

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9268-9275

  Yang, Liming ^a   Yu, Liya E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATES; CONCENTRATION RATIOS; DICARBOXYLATES; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; LITERATURE DATUMS; MALONATE; MALONATES; MALONIC ACIDS; OXALIC ACIDS; PHOTOOXIDATION PROPERTIES; SINGAPORE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WATER EXTRACTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBOXYLATION; EXTRACTION; PHOTOOXIDATION; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; EXTRACTION METHOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYGROSCOPICITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOOXIDATION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE; MALONATES; OXALATES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOLUTIONS;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 58149161873     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801820z     Document Type: Article

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