Tracing Anthropogenic Wastes: Detection of Fluorescent Optical Brighteners in a Gradient of Natural Organic Matter Fluorescence
A dual wavelength method was developed for the field detection of optical brighteners (OBs), fluorescent laundry additives used as indicators of anthropogenic wastes. The method was quantitative for OBs under variable levels of fluorescent colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM). Based on excitation...
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Scholar Commons
2009
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3815 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5011&context=etd |