Polyfluorinated compounds in residential and nonresidential indoor air

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 8075-8081

  Langer, Vera ^a,b   Dreyer, Annekatrin ^a   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; FLUIDIZED-BED EXTRACTION; FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOLS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN EXPOSURES; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OUTDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; PERFLUORINATED SULFONAMIDES; POLYURETHANE FOAMS;

AMIDES; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANOFLUORINE DERIVATIVE; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; POLYFLUORINATED COMPOUND; POLYURETHAN FOAM; SULFONAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETONE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHANOL; ETHER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDOOR AIR; MAGNITUDE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANOHALOGEN; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY;

ACRYLATES; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOUSING; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, FLUORINATED; POLYURETHANES;

EID: 78349310945     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102384z     Document Type: Article

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