VX fate on common matrices: Evaporation versus degradation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3921-3927

  Columbus, Ishay ^a   Waysbort, Daniel ^a   Marcovitch, Itzhak ^a   Yehezkel, Lea ^a   Mizrahi, Dana M ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; BITUMEN SHEET; CATALYTIC SITES; CLIMATIC CHAMBER; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; INERT SURFACES; MASS BALANCE; MODEL SYSTEM; NERVE AGENTS; SLOW RELEASE; SMALL DROPLETS; SMOOTH SURFACE; SOLID STATE NMR; VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VAPORS;

DROP FORMATION;

ASPHALT; METHYLPHOSPHONOTHIOIC ACID S (2 DIISOPROPYLAMINOETHYL) O ETHYL ESTER;

ASPHALT; CATALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DROPLET; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EVAPORATION; MASS BALANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE AREA; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; VAPORIZATION; VOLATILIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CATALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; VAPOR; VOLATILIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DECONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HYDROCARBONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANOTHIOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84859364870     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300404y     Document Type: Article

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