The relative importance of abiotic and biotic transformation of carbon tetrachloride in anaerobic soils and sediments

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 455-469

  Shao, H ^a   Butler, Elizabeth C ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic transformation; Biodegradation; Carbon tetrachloride; Natural attenuation; Reductive dechlorination

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC REACTION RATES; ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATION; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL PROCESS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL SOILS; REACTIVE SPECIES; REDUCTANTS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SOILS AND SEDIMENTS; SOLID-PHASE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SULFATE MINERALS;

REACTION RATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 70449458010     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320380902962346     Document Type: Article

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