Development of a comprehensive analytical method for the determination of chlorinated paraffins in spruce needles applied in passive air sampling

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3218-3224

  Iozza, Saverio ^a,b   Schmid, Peter ^a   Oehme, Michael ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Conifer needles; MCCPs; Polychlorinated n alkanes; SCCPs; Total CPs

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CHLORINATED PARAFFINS; CHLORINE CONTENT; CHROMATOGRAPHIC FRACTIONATION; CONIFER NEEDLES; LIQUID EXTRACTION; LONG CHAINS; MONITORING NETWORK; N-ALKANE CHAINS; PASSIVE AIR; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; PASSIVE SAMPLING; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED N-ALKANES; SPRUCE NEEDLES; WAX LAYERS;

CHLORINE; NEEDLES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SAMPLING; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

PARAFFINS;

ALKANE; PARAFFIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALKANE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHLORINATION; CONIFER NEEDLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SPRUCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PARAFFIN; PICEA; PLANT LEAVES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 74249110213     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.06.033     Document Type: Article

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