Industrial organic contaminants: Identification, toxicity and fate in the environment

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 371-386

  Dsikowitzky, Larissa ^a   Schwarzbauer, Jan ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic organisms; Aquatic systems; Emerging contaminants; Industrial chemicals; Industrial pollution; Industrial wastewaters; Organic markers

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; IMPURITIES; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; TOXICITY; WATER RESOURCES;

AQUATIC SYSTEM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; INDUSTRIALISATION; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; ORGANIC MARKER; ORGANICS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS;

EID: 84901734810     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-014-0467-1     Document Type: Review

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