Persistent Organic Pollutants - Are Our Methods Sensitive and Selective Enough?

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 485-494

  de Boer, Jacob ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography; Liquid chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Selectivity; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859839621     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2011.649450     Document Type: Article

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