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Measuring Carbon-based Contaminant Mineralization Using Combined CO2 Flux and Radiocarbon Analyses
Published on: October 21, 2016
Apparatus for monitoring the mineralization of volatile C-labeled compounds
1Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Cook College, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|November 1, 1979
Abstract:
Quantitative mineralization studies on radiolabeled compounds having high vapor pressures need to cope with several technical difficulties. An incubation and trapping system is described that was successfully used in mineralization studies on highly volatile trichlorobenzenes and other xenobiotic pollutants.
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