New trends in the analytical determination of emerging contaminants and their transformation products in environmental waters

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3496-3515

  Agüera, Ana ^a   Martínez Bueno, María Jesús ^a   Fernández Alba, Amadeo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emerging contaminants; LC HRMS; LC MS; Transformation products; Water analysis

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MATRIX; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84878105594     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-1586-0     Document Type: Article

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