Nanowastes and the environment: Using mercury as an example pollutant to assess the environmental fate of chemicals adsorbed onto manufactured nanomaterials

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 808-810

  Gao, Jie ^a   Bonzongo, Jean Claude J ^a   Bitton, Gabriel ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Wu, Chang Yu ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Mercury; Nanowastes; Titania silica nanocomposites; Toxicity; Trojan horse effect

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; IMPURITIES; MERCURY (METAL); MICROORGANISMS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; REACTION RATES; TOXICITY;

NANOWASTES; NATURAL SYSTEMS; TITANIA-SILICA NANOCOMPOSITES; TROJAN HORSE EFFECT;

WASTES;

MERCURY; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; BIOAVAILABILITY; COMPOSITE; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEACHING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; MICROORGANISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); TOXICITY TEST; TOXICOLOGY; WASTE;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; GAS; LEACHING; METHYLATION; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLLUTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MERCURY; METHYLATION; NANOCOMPOSITES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 42049122797     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/07-282.1     Document Type: Article

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