An updated state of the science EQC model for evaluating chemical fate in the environment: Application to D5 (decamethylcyclopentasiloxane)

Chemosphere

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-124

  Hughes, Lauren ^a   Mackay, Don ^a   Powell, David E ^b   Kim, Jaeshin ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fugacity; Multimedia model; Partitioning; Reaction; Siloxanes

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FUGACITY; MULTIMEDIA MODELING; PARTITIONING; REACTION; SILOXANES;

DATA HANDLING;

DECAMETHYLCYCLOPENTASILOXANE; ORGANOSILICON DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FUGACITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SILICON; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; EQUILIBRIUM CRITERION MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84857121489     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.11.072     Document Type: Article

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