Field column study using zerovalent iron for mercury removal from contaminated groundwater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6306-6312

  Weisener, Christopher G ^a,b   Sale, K Scott ^a   Smyth, David J A ^a   Blowes, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRODES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER; PH EFFECTS; REMOVAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN ELECTRODES; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (XAS); ZEROVALENT IRON;

MERCURY (METAL);

GROUND WATER; IRON; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; METACINNABAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GROUNDWATER; IRON; MERCURY; METAL EXTRACTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REMEDIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; EFFLUENT; EVALUATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDROGEN BOND; METAL EXTRACTION; MINERALOGY; NONHUMAN; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

GEOLOGY; IRON; MERCURY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOLUBILITY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 23844443439     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050092y     Document Type: Article

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