The release of lindane from contaminated building materials

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 11844-11855

  Volchek, Konstantin ^a   Thouin, Geneviève ^b   Kuang, Wenxing ^a   Li, Ken ^a   Tezel, F Handan ^c   Brown, Carl E ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Sustainable Development Technology Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building materials; Dechlorination; Decontamination; Inhalation; Isomerisation; Lindane; TWA; hexachlorocyclohexane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896416870     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2742-x     Document Type: Article

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