Outdoor weathering and dissolution of TNT and Tritonal

Chemosphere

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1338-1345

  Taylor, Susan ^a   Lever, James H ^a   Fadden, Jennifer ^a   Perron, Nancy ^a   Packer, Bonnie ^b  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolution model; Fate; Outdoor tests; Photo transformation; TNT; Tritonal

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; RAIN; SOIL TESTING; TIME SERIES; WEATHERING;

DISSOLUTION MODEL; FATE; LOW-ORDER DETONATIONS; OUTDOOR WEATHERING; PHOTO-TRANSFORMATION; TNT (2 ,4 ,6TRINITROTOLUENE); TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS; TRITONAL;

EXPLOSIVES;

ALUMINUM; EXPLOSIVE; TRINITROTOLUENE; TRITONAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DISSOLUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TRANSFORMATION; TRINITROTOLUENE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER SAMPLING; WEATHERING;

EID: 71649116021     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.09.040     Document Type: Article

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