Role of Natural Colloids in the Transport of Hydrophobic Pollutants
- 19 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 215 (4535) , 968-970
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.215.4535.968
Abstract
The sorptive properties of natural estuarine colloids were investigated, with the herbicides atrazine and linuron used as model pollutants. Linear Freundlich adsorption constants for atrazine and linuron were 1850 and 6750, respectively. These high values indicate that natural colloids have the potential to be important substrates in the transport of hydrophobic contaminants in aquatic environments.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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