Metal-solid interactions controlling the bioavailability of mercury from sediments to clams and sipunculans

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3794-3799

  Zhong, Huan ^a   Wang, Wen Xiong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; METAL-SOLID INTERACTIONS; ORGANOCOMPLEXED PHASE; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTION (SCE);

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTS; SOLUBILITY;

MERCURY (METAL);

IRON OXIDE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURIC OXIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; METAL; METHYLMERCURY; MINERAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOSULFUR DERIVATIVE; SULFATE;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXTRACTION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTS; SOLUBILITY;

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BENTHOS; BIOAVAILABILITY; CLAM FISHERY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; MOLLUSC; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; BENTHOS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRACTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SEQUENTIAL CHEMICAL EXTRACTION; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; SOLID; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIVALVIA; BODY FLUIDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; MERCURY; MERCURY RADIOISOTOPES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; NEMATODA;

BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; SIPUNCULIDA; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) PHILIPPINARUM;

EID: 33745180865     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0523441     Document Type: Article

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