Analysis of compound-specific chlorine stable isotopes of vinyl chloride by continuous flow-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (FC-IRMS)

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 299-306

  Shouakar Stash, Orfan ^a   Frape, S K ^a   Aravena, R ^a   Gargini, A ^b   Pasini, M ^b   Drimmie, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compound specific chlorine stable isotopes; Groundwater; Vinyl chloride (VC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249085172     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920903347628     Document Type: Article

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