Comment on "Experimental pKa determination for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and the potential impact of pKa concentration dependence on laboratory-measured partitioning phenomena and envrionmental modeling"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5150-5151

  Goss, Kai Uwe ^a   Arp, Hans Peter H ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; FLUORINE; HYDRONIUM ION; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID; WATER;

AEROSOL; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PH; PKA; PROTON TRANSPORT; VOLATILIZATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRONS; ENVIRONMENT; FLUOROCARBONS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; METHANOL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OCTANOIC ACIDS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67649962241     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900451s     Document Type: Letter

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