Effectiveness of urea in enhancing the extractability of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene from chemically variant soils

Chemosphere

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1811-1817

  Das, Padmini ^a   Sarkar, Dibyendu ^a   Makris, Konstantinos C ^b   Punamiya, Pravin ^a   Datta, Rupali ^c  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Desorption; Solubilizing agent; TNT; Urea

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CATALYSIS; CROPS; DESORPTION; EXTRACTION; METABOLISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUBILITY; UREA;

2 ,4 ,6-TRINITROTOLUENE; GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; PHYTOREMEDIATION MODEL; PHYTOREMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENTS; SOLID/LIQUID INTERFACES; SORPTION AND DESORPTIONS; TNT-CONTAMINATED SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

NITROGEN FERTILIZER; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TRINITROTOLUENE; UREA;

CATALYSIS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PH; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL POLLUTION; SORPTION; TRINITROTOLUENE; UREA;

AGRONOMY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CROP; DESORPTION; EXTRACTION; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOREMEDIATION; REACTION TIME; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOLUBILITY;

ADSORPTION; DESORPTION; SOLUBILIZING AGENT; TNT; UREA;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; HYDROPONICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRINITROTOLUENE; UREA;

EID: 84886380874     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.06.028     Document Type: Article

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