Organophosphate and halogenated flame retardants in atmospheric particles from a European Arctic site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6133-6140

  Salamova, Amina ^a   Hermanson, Mark H ^b   Hites, Ronald A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; ATMOSPHERIC SAMPLES; CHLORINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED FLAME RETARDANT; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE ESTERS; TRI-N-BUTYL PHOSPHATE;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

BIPHENYL; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; TRIBUTYL PHOSPHATE; AIR POLLUTANT; DECABROMOBIPHENYL ETHER; DIPHENYL ETHER DERIVATIVE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PBDE; PHOSPHATE; PHTHALATE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECHLORINATION; HALOGENATION; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES;

ARCTIC; LONGYEARBYEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; SVALBARD;

EID: 84901925806     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es500911d     Document Type: Article

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