Importance of dissolved neutral mercury sulfides for methyl mercury production in contaminated sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2270-2276

  Drott, Andreas ^a   Lambertsson, Lars ^b   Björn, Erik ^b   Skyllberg, Ulf ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER (DOM); METHYLATION RATES; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA (SRB);

COMPLEXATION; CONTAMINATION; MERCURY (METAL); METHYLATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SEDIMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

WATER ANALYSIS;

BISULFIDE DERIVATIVE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FRESH WATER; HALIDE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE DERIVATIVE; METHYLMERCURY; SULFIDE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPLEXATION; CONTAMINATION; MERCURY (METAL); METHYLATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SEDIMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

BRACKISH WATER; FRESHWATER; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; POREWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFIDE; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; HEAVY METAL POISONING; INCUBATION TIME; METHYLATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WATER CONTAMINATION;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; SULFIDES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; SWEDEN; WATER;

EID: 34247151275     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061724z     Document Type: Article

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