Fate of brominated flame retardants and organochlorine pesticides in urban soil: Volatility and degradation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2668-2674

  Wong, Fiona ^a,b,e   Kurt Karakus, Perihan ^a,c   Bidleman, Terry F ^a,d  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS (BFRS); ENANTIOMER FRACTIONS; ENANTIOSELECTIVE; ENANTIOSELECTIVE DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER (PBDES); URBAN SOILS;

CHEMICALS; CHIRALITY; DEGRADATION; DICHLOROMETHANE; ENANTIOMERS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; ETHERS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES;

SOILS;

DICHLOROMETHANE; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANOCLORINE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; AMBIENT AIR; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXTRACTION METHOD; FUGACITY; LABORATORY METHOD; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANOCHLORINE; PBDE; PESTICIDE; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL EMISSION; URBAN AREA; VOLATILIZATION;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CHIRALITY; DEGRADATION; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; URBAN AREA; VOLATILIZATION;

AIR; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALF-LIFE; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STEREOISOMERISM; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84857841010     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203287x     Document Type: Article

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