Although organotins are notorious man-made organometallic species introduced into the aquatic environment, no investigation had been concerned with contamination of higher trophic animals such as marine mammals until the last few years. Our recent work demonstrated the detection of butyltin compound
The quantitation of butyltin and cyclohexyltin compounds in the marine environment of British Columbia
β Scribed by William R Cullen; Guenter K Eigendorf; Basil U Nwata; Akiko Takatsu
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 679 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0268-2605
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