Environmentally acceptable effect of hydrogen peroxide on cave "lamp-flora", calcite speleothems and limestones

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 417-422

  Faimon, Jiří ^a   Štelcl, Jindřich ^a   Kubešová, Svatava ^b   Zimák, Jiří ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cave; Dissolution; Hydrogen peroxide; Kinetics; Lamp flora

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA; CARBONATES; CAVES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIMESTONE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

DISSOLUTION RATES;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIMESTONE; WATER;

CAVE; DISSOLUTION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KINETICS; SPELEOTHEM; WEATHERING;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORROSION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESTRUCTION; DISSOLUTION; FLORA; LABORATORY TEST; MOSS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; TAXON;

CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGY; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LIGHT;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0037380097     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00309-3     Document Type: Article

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