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Fatty alcohols : anthropogenic and natural occurrence in the environment / Stephen M. Mudge, Scott E. Belanger, Allen M. Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mudge, Stephen M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fatty alcohols.
- Alcohols.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fatty alcohols occur naturally in most organisms and can also be used in consumer products including detergents and cosmetics and all of these materials make their way to the sea eventually. These long chain alcohols can be used as biomarkers due to their distinctive source allocations although they have differential degradation rates across the range of chain lengths. Concern has been raised about their inputs from anthropogenic uses and this book seeks to set out the natural and industrial synthetic pathways, sources, signatures, concentrations in the environment, toxicity and eco-toxicity b
- Contents:
- Fatty Alchols_publicity; i_iv; v_vi; vii_xi; xii; xiii_xiv; 001_009; 010_019; 020_031; 032_051; 052_066; 067_074; 075_109; 110_116; 117_127; 128_141; 142_154; 155_159
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847558596
- 1847558593
- OCLC:
- 319518107
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