The FOCUS groundwater guidance (FOCUS 2014, p. 41) states that a reliable measured log Kow for neutral pH must be available in order to apply the Briggs equation. It is not clarified when it can be regarded reliable, but the equation is stated to be produced for non-ionic compounds, suggesting that the compound should not be ionogenic (weak acid/base) or ionic.
Usage
TSCF(log_Kow, method = c("briggs82", "dettenmaier09"))Arguments
- log_Kow
The decadic logarithm of the octanol-water partition constant
- method
Short name of the estimation method.
References
FOCUS (2014) Generic Guidance for Tier 1 FOCUS Ground Water Assessments. Version 2.2, May 2014 Dettenmaier EM, Doucette WJ and Bugbee B (2009) Chemical hydrophobicity and uptake by plant roots. Environ. Sci. Technol 43, 324 - 329
Examples
plot(TSCF, -1, 5, xlab = "log Kow", ylab = "TSCF", ylim = c(0, 1.1))
TSCF_2 <- function(x) TSCF(x, method = "dettenmaier09")
curve(TSCF_2, -1, 5, add = TRUE, lty = 2)
#> Error in curve(TSCF_2, -1, 5, add = TRUE, lty = 2): could not find function "curve"
legend("topright", lty = 1:2, bty = "n",
legend = c("Briggs et al. (1982)", "Dettenmaier et al. (2009)"))
#> Error in legend("topright", lty = 1:2, bty = "n", legend = c("Briggs et al. (1982)", "Dettenmaier et al. (2009)")): could not find function "legend"