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Table 1 Summary of available half-live data for phenanthrene

From: Can a chemical be both readily biodegradable AND very persistent (vP)? Weight-of-evidence determination demonstrates that phenanthrene is not persistent in the environment

Compartment	Half-life (days)
Compartment	n	Range	Geomean
Water	19	0.1–17.5	3.5
Soil	32	4.4–200	21.6
Sediment	32 (34)	0.3–42 (113)	15.5 (25.4)^a

Values in parentheses include data from OECD 308 study, which have been demonstrated to be unreliable
^aValues do not include data from slurry experiments

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