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Why are alkane eliminations from ionized alkanes so abundant?

Eliminations of alkanes consisting of the side chain plus a hydrogen from ionized alkylcycloalkanes are unusually abundant among such processes. For example, ethane is eliminated from ionized ethylcyclopentane...

John C. Traeger, David J. McAdoo… in Journal of the American Society for Mass S… (1998)

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Detection of waterborne mutagens and characterization of chemicals in selected galveston sites after an oil spill

S. Kira, T. Itoh, H. Hayatsu, K. Taketa… in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1994)

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DNA adducts as early bioindicators of chemical exposure

Sensitive analytical methods indicate the presence of hundreds of chemical contaminants in our environment. However, concentration of these pollutants is usually at the low parts per million or parts per billi...

C. S. Giam, T. L. Holliday, Y. Zheng… in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (1991)

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DNA Adducts as Early Bioindicators of Chemical Exposure

Sensitive analytical methods indicate the presence of hundreds of chemical contaminants in our environment. However, concentration of these pollutants is usually at the low parts per million or parts per billi...

C. S. Giam, T. L. Holliday, Y. Zheng, J. L. Williams… in Fourth Symposium on our Environment (1991)

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Ambient concentration and precipitation scavenging of atmospheric organic pollutants

Trace organic compounds were measured in air and rainfall at a rural site in Texas. Chlorinated hydrocarbons and phthalic acid esters (PAEs) were present at concentrations of ng m⁻³ in air and ng L⁻¹ in precipita...

E. Atlas, C. S. Giam in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (1988)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Strategies and Approaches to Marine Pollution Research

It is well documented that the marine environment is contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons, synthetic organics and toxic metals. Many workers have reported the presence of chlorinated hydrocarbons and other...

C. S. Giam, Elliot Atlas in Strategies and Advanced Techniques for Marine Pollution Studies (1986)

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Sea-Air Exchange of High-Molecular Weight Synthetic Organic Compounds

Studies over the past two decades have verified that man-made organic chemicals are reaching virtually all areas of the earth. Research on persistent chemical compounds in the environment has uncovered traces ...

Elliot Atlas, C. S. Giam in The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling (1986)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Sampling Organic Compounds for Marine Pollution Studies

A research program to study pollution of the marine environment by organic compounds contains several critical stages. Among the critical steps are: problem definition and planning, sample acquisition, analyti...

Elliot Atlas, C. S. Giam in Strategies and Advanced Techniques for Marine Pollution Studies (1986)

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Phthalates and Related Plasticizers

Plasticizers are chemicals which are used primarily as additives to a large variety of commercial products. Plasticizers are added to impart flexibility to a plastic resin or polymer, to facilitate processing ...

E. Atlas, C. S. Giam in Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Sciences (1985)

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Phthalic Acid Esters

The twentieth century can as properly be called the age of organic chemistry as it can the atomic age. The dramatic increase in the production of synthetic fibers, processed foods, pesticides, plastics, pharma...

C. S. Giam, E. Atlas, M. A. Powers Jr., J. E. Leonard in Anthropogenic Compounds (1984)

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Phthalic acid esters, total DDTs, and polychlorinated biphenyls in marine samples from Galveston Bay, Texas

H. E. Murray, Lee E. Ray, C. S. Giam in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1981)

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Chemical Characterization of Ocean-Dumped Waste Materials

This paper describes methods for chemical characterization and organic “finger printing” techniques for complex ocean-dumped wastes. The methods employ wet chemical separations and gas chromatography combined ...

E. Atlas, G. Martinez, C. S. Giam in Ocean Dum** of Industrial Wastes (1981)

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Simplified monitoring procedures for benzo(a)pyrene, hexachlorobenzene and pentachlorophenol in water

C. S. Giam, D. A. Trujillo, S. Kira… in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1980)

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Determination of benzo(a)pyrene, hexachlorobenzene and pentachlorophenol in oysters from Galveston Bay, Texas

H. E. Murray, G. S. Neff, Y. Hrung… in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1980)

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Bioaccumulation of hexachlorobenzene in killifish (Fundulus similis)

C. S. Giam, H. E. Murray, Lee E. Ray… in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1980)

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Accumulation of phthalate ester plasticizers in lake constance sediments

C. S. Giam, E. Atlas in Naturwissenschaften (1980)

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The toxicity of phthalates to the marine dinoflagellateGymnodinium breve

W. B. Wilson, C. S. Giam, T. E. Goodwin… in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination an… (1978)

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The effects of three phthalate esters on the larval development of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio (Holthuis)

The effects of three phthalic acid esters, dimethyl phthalate (DMP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) and di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) on survival and development rate of larvae of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pug...

R. B. Laughlin Jr., J. M. Neff, Y. C. Hrung… in Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (1978)

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Osmoregulation of the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

Glycine was the most abundant free amino acid (FAA) in abdominal muscle of grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio, accounting for over 50% of the total pool. Arginine, alanine, proline, taurine and serine were also pres...

G. Roesijadi, J. W. Anderson, C. S. Giam in Marine Biology (1976)