Cold-trapping of persistent organic pollutants in the mountain soils of Western Sichuan, China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9086-9091

  Chen, Dazhou ^a,b   Liu, Wenjie ^a   Liu, Xiande ^a   Westgate, John N ^c   Wania, Frank ^c  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b National Research Center for Certified Reference Materials   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CHENGDU; CONCENTRATION INCREASES; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; DENSELY POPULATED; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRIES; LOW TO HIGHS; MOUNTAIN SOILS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; PCB CONGENERS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PERSISTENT PESTICIDES; PRECIPITATION SCAVENGING; SICHUAN; SICHUAN , CHINAS; SOIL CONCENTRATIONS; SOIL EXTRACTS; SOIL SAMPLES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES; TIBETAN PLATEAUX; TRAPPING MECHANISMS; WOLONG NATURE RESERVES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LANDFORMS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUNTAIN; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERSISTENCE; PESTICIDE; POPULATION DENSITY; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SOIL POLLUTION;

ALTITUDE; CHINA; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SOIL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN;

EID: 58149172072     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8018572     Document Type: Article

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