PBDEs in the Environment : Time trends, bioaccumulation and the identification of their successor, decabromodiphenyl ethane

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are important chemical flame retardants, but also environmental pollutants. Their bromine substitution lends them a different bioaccumulation behaviour than the better studied organochlorines. The contamination of a Swedish lake with lower brominated BDEs was a...

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Main Author: Kierkegaard, Amelie
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad miljövetenskap (ITM) 2007
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6779
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7155-410-6

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