Quantitative property-property relationships for computing occupational exposure limits and vapour hazard ratios of organic solventsy

SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 583-601

  Debia, M ^a   Krishnan, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

OEL; Partition coefficients; QPPR; Solvents; Substitution; VHR

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; HAZARDS; OLIVE OIL;

HAZARD RATIO; MODE OF ACTION; N-OCTANOL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMITS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PROPERTY-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS; QUANTITATIVE PROPERTY- PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP; SOLVENT SUBSTITUTIONS; TIME-WEIGHTED AVERAGES; VAPOR HAZARD RATIO;

SOLVENTS;

ACACIA KOA;

EID: 78649793257     PISSN: 1062936X     EISSN: 1029046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1062936X.2010.528241     Document Type: Article

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