Tracing the Sources of PCDD/Fs and PCBs to Lake Baikal
Article Abstract:
The freshwater Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has a unique ecosystem threatened by PCB and PCDD/F contamination. Analysis of fish and soil samples show the chemicals are low in the pristine northeast area and high in the southwest industrialized area, which includes a chloralkali chemical complex.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Soil/air partitioning of semivolatile organic compounds. 2. Influence of temperature and relative humidity
Article Abstract:
Researchers from the University of Bayreuth, Germany investigated the effect of temperature and relative humidity on the partitioning of polychlorinated biphenyls and chlorobenzene between a layer of sandy loam soil and air.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Lack of an aging effect on the soil-air partitioning of polychlorinated biphenyls
Article Abstract:
Soil aging has been found to be an insignificant factor in determining soil-air partitioning of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Experiments employed a solid-phase fugacity meter to determine soil-air partitioning in two soil samples aged 392 days and about 30 years respectively. Storage whether by glass jars or by natural processes have been shown to have a short term effect on soil-air partitioning and none thereafter.
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Estimation of steady-state creep behavior of Al2O3/YAG eutectic composite by image-based finite element analysis
- Abstracts: Sweeping court decision could crush smog plans, rein in TRI and wetlands rules. U.K. businesses propose greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme
- Abstracts: Greenland snow evidence of large scale atmospheric contamination for platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Anthropogenic Platinum and Palladium in the Sediments of Boston Harbor
- Abstracts: Enhanced effect of in-situ generated ammonium salts aerosols on the removal of NO(sub x) from simulated flue gas