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Concentrations, gas-particle distributions, and source indicator analysis of brominated flame retardants in air at Toolik Lake, Arctic Alaska.
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| Author | Davie-Martin, Cleo L. Hageman, Kimberly J. Chin, Yu-Ping Nistor, Benjamin J. Hung, Hayley |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Brominated flame-retardants (BFRs) can be released from consumer products, resulting in accumulation in the surrounding environment and/or long-range transport to remote environments. We evaluated concentration changes in a suite of BFRs, including 13 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE), in air at Toolik Lake, Arctic Alaska during the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2013. A high-volume active air sampler was used to collect 2 day integrated samples at the field station and three flow-through air samplers were used to collect 18 day integrated samples along a transect extending away from the field station. The BDE congeners associated with the penta-BDE commercial mixture (BDE-47, -99, and -100) were the most frequently detected BFRs and were found at concentrations consistent with those reported at other Arctic sites. Gas-particle distributions were influenced by temperature and correlations between gas-phase concentrations and temperature suggested that either volatilization from local sources or re-emission from secondary sources (that is, re-volatilization of BFRs that had migrated northwards from distant sources) was important for the lower-brominated BFRs during the warmer months. Source indicator analysis suggested no single dominant geographic source of BFRs while results from the flow-through samplers indicated that the field station itself was not a significant source of BFRs. |
| Starting Page | 1274 |
| Ending Page | 1284 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/c6/em/c6em00395h/c6em00395h1.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 27602544v1 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Journal | Environmental science. Processes & impacts |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Brominated Diphenyl Ethers Estradiol Congeners Flame Ionization HOXD13 wt Allele Steroids, Brominated Volatilization penta-snRNP complex |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |