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Main Title Influence of Colloids on Sediment-Water Partition Coefficients of Polychlorobiphenyl Congeners in Natural Waters.
Author Baker, J. E. ; Capel, P. D. ; Eisenreich, S. J. ;
CORP Author Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Dept. of Civil and Mining Engineering. ;Eidgenoessische Anstalt fuer Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewaesserschultz, Duebendorf (Switzerland).;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Publisher c1986
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA-R-810274; EPA/600/J-86/542;
Stock Number PB90-265042
Additional Subjects Water pollution ; Colloid chemistry ; Sediments ; Lake Superior ; Distribution(Property) ; Field tests ; Organic compounds ; Sorption ; Great Lakes ; Suspended sediments ; Separation ; Reprints ; Sediment-water interfaces ; Polychlorinated biphenyls
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NTIS  PB90-265042 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Laboratory studies have shown that speciation of hydrophobic organic pollutants in aquatic systems is too complex to model as a linear, two-phase sorption equilibrium due to ill-defined phases and slow kinetics. This complexity is manifested in an inverse variation in sediment-water partition coefficients with the concentration of solids. Measurements of the sediment-water partitioning of polychlorobiphenyl (PCB) congeners in Lake Superior provide some of the first field evidence demonstrating the importance of colloids to the fates of highly hydrophobic organic pollutants. (Copyright (c) 1986 American Chemical Society.)