Gas-particle partitioning of persistent organic pollutants in the Western Balkan countries affected by war conflicts

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-72

  Radonic, Jelena ^a   Sekulic, Maja Turk ^a   Miloradov, Mirjana Vojinovic ^a   Čupr, Pavel ^b   Klánová, Jana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ambient air; Gas particle partitioning; High volume sampling; OCPs; PAHs; PCBs; Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PAH; PCB; PESTICIDE; SOIL POLLUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WAR;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CHEMISTRY; CROATIA; GAS; INDUSTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; SERBIA; WAR;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; GASES; INDUSTRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SERBIA; WAR;

ASIA; BALKAN; EURASIA; TURKMENISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 58149337124     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-008-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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