Thallium (Tl) is a highly volatile and toxic heavy metal regarded to cause pollution even at very low con-centrations of several parts per million. Despite the extremely high risk of Tl in the environment, limitedinformation ...

There are often two phases in the desorption of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs): an initial phase of rapid desorption and a subsequent phase of much slower release. By assessing the rapidly desorbing fraction of ...