Reply to Comment on "novel Methoxylated Polybrominated Diphenoxybenzene Congeners and Possible Sources in Herring Gull Eggs from the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3589-3590

  Chen, Da ^a   Letcher, Robert J ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; METHOXYLATED POLYBROMINATED DIPHENOXYBENZENE CONGENER; TETRADECABROMODIPHENOXYBENZENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIODEGRADATION; BIRD; CONTAMINATION; EGG; HERRING GULL; LAKE; LETTER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; SOLUBILITY;

LARUS ARGENTATUS;

EID: 84863364553     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300700x     Document Type: Letter

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