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  • Semi-volatile fluorinated organic compounds in Asian and Pacific Northwestern U.S. air masses

    Creator:
    Piekarz, Arkadiusz M.
    Abstract:
    Current studies suggest that perfluorinated organic compounds, such as fluorotelomer alcohols (FtOHs) in the troposphere, may be precursors of perfluorocarboxylic acids and perfluorosulfonates in remote regions. Fluorinated organic compounds were investigated in archived extracts collected from remote locations in Okinawa, Japan (HSO) and Mount Bachelor, Oregon (MBO) during the springs...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    carboxylic acids (PFCAs) have been detected in mammals across the North American Arctic, in urban, coastal

  • Determination of fluorochemicals in waste-dominated aqueous systems

    Creator:
    Huset, Carin A.
    Abstract:
    While fluorochemicals have been detected all over the world and in wastewater treatment plants, the effect of wastewater effluent on the receiving waters has not been evaluated. In the first study, the mass flow of fluorochemicals emanating from wastewater treatment plants along the Glatt River in Switzerland was evaluated. The...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    fluorochemicals were also found in food webs in the Great Lakes,24 the arctic,25 and in Lake Ontario.26 An

  • Development, validation and the application of a congener specific photodegradation model for PBDEs

    Creator:
    Zeng, Xia
    Abstract:
    The thermodynamic properties of 39 PBDEs have been calculated using Gaussian 03 on the B3LYP/6-31G(d)//B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. The PBDE congeners' enthalpies of formation increase with increasing number of bromines and show a strong dependence on the bromine substitution pattern. The effects of bromine substitution pattern have been quantitatively studied by GAM...
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    Dissertation
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    arctic biota, however, suggests the possibility of long-range distribution (17). Studies of biota in