Use of copper shavings to remove mercury from contaminated groundwater or wastewater by amalgamation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4269-4273

  Huttenloch, Petra ^a   Roehl, Karl Ernst ^a   Czurda, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAMATION;

COPPER OXIDES; MERCURY (METAL); POSITIVE IONS; SOLUTIONS; WASTEWATER;

GROUNDWATER;

COPPER; GROUND WATER; MERCURY; ZEOLITE;

COPPER; GROUNDWATER; MERCURY; METAL EXTRACTION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COPPER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT REMOVAL; WASTEWATER;

AMALGAMATION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; ION EXCHANGE; METAL RECOVERY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COPPER; ION EXCHANGE; KINETICS; MERCURY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 0043192308     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es020237q     Document Type: Article

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