Emerging Contaminants

Treatise on Water Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 69-87

  Kummerer K ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial sweetener; Cyanotoxin; Emerging contaminant; Fate; Flame retardant; Illicit drug; Metabolite; Micro pollutant; Nanoparticle; Organobromine; Personal care product; Pharmaceutical; Transformation; Water; Xenobiotic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956610760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53199-5.00052-X     Document Type: Chapter

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