Mercury contamination in vicinity of secondary copper smelters in Fuyang, Zhejiang Province, China: Levels and contamination in topsoils

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1787-1793

  Yin, Xuebin ^a,b   Yao, Chunxia ^a   Song, Jing ^a   Li, Zhibo ^a   Zhang, Changbo ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Bi, De ^a,c   Li, Chenxi ^a   Teng, Ying ^a   Wu, Longhua ^a   Wan, Hongdong ^a   Luo, Yongming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^c ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic mercury; Hg accumulation; Secondary Cu smelter; Soil pollution; Topsoil

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC MERCURY; DEPOSITION PROCESS; HG ACCUMULATION; MERCURY CONTAMINATIONS; REACTIVE GASEOUS; SECONDARY CU SMELTER; SOIL CONTAMINATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STUDY AREAS; TOPSOIL; ZHEJIANG PROVINCES;

COPPER SMELTING; MERCURY (METAL); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMELTING; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

COPPER; MERCURY;

COPPER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); SMELTING; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPSOIL;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; SMELTER; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

CHINA; COPPER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; METALLURGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FUYANG; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 64149111350     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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